Antelbellum America, the Civil War, and Recanstruction Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. gin Used to seperate the seeds from the cotton fiber
  2. 7. of chickamauga Union general led his troops seven miles south of chattanooga at chickamauga Creek
  3. 10. bureau A federal government organization etsablished in 1865 that helped the newly freed slaves after the Civil War
  4. 12. proclamation A document issueed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in the confedereacy
  5. 13. Unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
  6. 17. Amendment An amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal
  7. 18. of 1850 Legislation passed by Congress by which California entered the Union as a free state
  8. 19. The ability to buy something now and pay for it later over a period of time
  9. 20. farming Owned some agricultural equipment
  10. 23. amendment Granted citizensship to the former slaves and forbade the states from denying anyone the "equal protection of the law"
  11. 24. klux klan Worked to keep the freedmen from voting after the Civil War
  12. 25. amendment Extended the right to vote to all males
  13. 26. lincoln Elected in 1860
  14. 27. states A state that allowed slavery
Down
  1. 1. codes set of laws passed by Georgia , and most outhern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of the freedman
  2. 2. To declare invalid
  3. 3. sovereighty The ability if the residnets of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery
  4. 5. compromise Legislation passed by congress in 1820 by which Maine entered the Union as a free state, Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, slavery was prohibited north of the southern border of Missouri
  5. 6. and antebellum The period before the Civil War
  6. 7. runners Mostly private ships that slipped around the blockade
  7. 8. The act of pulling out of the Union
  8. 9. Landowners provided land, houses, farming tools, and fertilizer
  9. 11. The period immediately after the Civil War when the south rebulit and the southern states returned to the Union
  10. 14. Confederate prison for Union soldiers
  11. 15. states A state that did not allow slavery
  12. 16. to abolish slavery
  13. 21. The right to vote
  14. 22. rights The belief that states interest should precedence over the interest of the national government