civil war vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a system of selecting people for required military service
  2. 3. codes- laws in a southern state that controlled enslaved people
  3. 4. ruffian- armed pro, slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas
  4. 7. person who is running away from legal authority
  5. 10. person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else
  6. 13. reward or payment
  7. 14. an African American religious folk song
  8. 15. to add a territory to ones own territory
  9. 16. Destiny- the belief that the United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
  10. 19. to place within a trench, or ditch, for defense; to place in a strong defensive position
  11. 20. unfair treatment
  12. 24. person opposed to immigration
  13. 27. Railroad- a system od cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
  14. 29. union- group of workers with the same trade or skill
  15. 33. person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority
  16. 34. to formally join a military force
  17. 36. religious meeting
  18. 37. War- conflict between citizens of the same country
  19. 38. fortune seeker who came to California during the gold rush
  20. 42. a warship equipped with iron plating for protection
  21. 46. town- a fast growing community
  22. 47. to block off
  23. 51. the ability to read and write
  24. 52. rancher, owner of a rancho
  25. 53. farmer who owns a small farm
  26. 54. a Texan of Latin America, often Mexican, descent
  27. 55. a work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer
  28. 56. a device that used electric signals to send messages
  29. 57. corpus- a legal writ, or order, that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court
  30. 58. school- state supported school for training high school graduates to become teachers
  31. 59. the side or edge of a military formation
Down
  1. 1. a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a battle
  2. 2. official order
  3. 5. the right to vote
  4. 6. ship- ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that "clipped" time from long journeys
  5. 8. rights- theory that individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs
  6. 9. an unfair opinion not based on facts
  7. 11. war- a strategy of bringing war to the entire society, not just the military
  8. 12. men- an adventurer of the American west
  9. 17. Proclamation- decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion on January 1,1863
  10. 18. the teaching of males and females together
  11. 21. the period of rebuilding the Southern states into the Union
  12. 22. person who sought the end of slavery in the United States
  13. 23. code- a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
  14. 25. a place to store weapons and military equipment
  15. 26. drinking little or no alcohol
  16. 28. an extreme shortage of food
  17. 30. occupation- situation in which people from 2 countries can occupy an area
  18. 31. Schooner- a canvas covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
  19. 32. withdrawal
  20. 35. state- state on the border between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
  21. 39. plantation manager
  22. 40. stream of smaller river that feeds into a larger river
  23. 41. refusal to give in
  24. 43. the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons
  25. 44. community based on a vision of the perfect society
  26. 45. disobedience- refusing to obey laws considered unjust
  27. 48. to officially leave an organization
  28. 49. person who dies for a great cause
  29. 50. ranch, especially the large estates set up by Mexicans in the American west