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Across
- 2. to pass
- 5. to revoke or withdraw
- 11. involuntary servitude of African-Americans or Blacks in the United States from 1619-1865
- 12. the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent
- 14. gave African-American or Black men the right to vote
- 17. a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading
- 18. gave African-Americans or Blacks United States citizenship
- 19. Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia
- 20. compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
Down
- 1. Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved people were not citizens of the United States
- 3. act that required runaway enslaved people to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States
- 4. laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen
- 6. machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly removed seeds from the cotton fibers
- 7. states where slavery was not legal
- 8. the 16th president of United States
- 9. ended slavery in the United States
- 10. election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency
- 13. states where slavery was legal
- 15. compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
- 16. terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South