Jacksen White - Unit 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Act It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  2. 5. A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821.
  3. 8. any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
  4. 10. A general of the nineteenth century; the commander of Confederate troops during the Civil War.
  5. 12. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control.
  6. 14. any of a number of stout-bodied venomous snakes with coppery-pink or reddish-brown coloration, in particular.
  7. 15. A political party that began in 1854 and is today one of the two major political parties in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.
  2. 2. a preliminary version of a piece of writing.
  3. 4. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court.
  4. 5. military government involving the suspension of ordinary law.
  5. 6. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  6. 7. part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.
  7. 9. A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
  8. 11. The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
  9. 13. a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.
  10. 16. make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally or in a black market.