Social Studies vocab words for chapters 7 and 8
Across
- 2. to withdraw from a country or organization
- 4. somebody who encourages people to join a group or take action.
- 6. an order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 that announced the freedom of enslaved people in the rebelling states
- 7. the group of people who make laws for the United States. It has elected representatives from all states.
- 9. a change to government process or document
- 10. The head of the executive branch
- 13. someone who wants to end slavery
Down
- 1. a system of government in which power is divided between a federal, or national government and its various state governments.
- 3. a written document that outlines how the state will be governmentally organized.
- 5. a person who comes into a country to live there.
- 8. the eleven southern states that left the union during the civil war, also called the confederate states of America
- 11. the north part of the country during the civil war/United States
- 12. a geographic area with boundaries and a government with a constitution, plus some say in the federal government.