Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation
  2. 7. withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
  3. 10. The southern states during the civil war that supported slavery
  4. 11. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
  5. 12. declared that all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union shall be free
  6. 13. an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States
Down
  1. 1. An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent good or people from entering or leaving
  2. 2. Period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877
  3. 3. The practice or system of owning slaves
  4. 4. A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
  5. 6. The northern states during the civil war that opposed slavery
  6. 8. The Calvary were forces that fought principally on horseback, also armed with carbines, pistols, and sabers
  7. 9. The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government