Civil War Vocab
Across
- 3. Loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.
- 4. (1857) A Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
- 5. The act of a state leaving the Union (South Carolina did this
- 8. The government formed by Southern states that seceded from the United States.
- 9. The development of factories and machine-based manufacturing, especially in the North.
Down
- 1. The Southern economic system based on agriculture and slave labor, especially for crops like cotton and tobacco.
- 2. The 16th President and author of the Emancipation Proclamation
- 5. The war between the Northern states (Union) and the Southern states (Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865.
- 6. The belief that individual states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.
- 7. the states that remained loyal to it during the American Civil War, opposing the secessionist Confederate States.