Unit 4 Vocabulary Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. – the person who brings a case against another in a court of law
  2. 3. vote – the vote cast by representatives chosen to formally elect the President and
  3. 7. sovereignty – the idea that government authority comes from people who have
  4. 9. – the formal withdrawal from an alliance or group, especially a political one
  5. 10. – a formal meeting of delegates to make decisions on behalf of a group
  6. 11. – a particular way of viewing or understanding a situation
  7. 14. – the ideas or policies supported by a political group
  8. 15. – not allowed under the rules of the Constitution
  9. 18. – a legal decision that is used as a guide or example for later cases
  10. 19. – facts, examples, or details used to support a claim
  11. 21. – to make something invalid or no longer legal and binding
  12. 22. smaller regional or state governments
  13. 23. – combining separate pieces of information into a connected whole thesis – a clear statement of the main argument or claim in a piece of writing
  14. 27. – loyalty to one's own region or localized interests, instead of to the country as
  15. 28. Slave Act – a federal law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 requiring
  16. 29. – full membership in a state or nation, including its legal rights and protections
  17. 30. system – a system of government in which power is shared between the central
Down
  1. 1. – a person who opposed immediate secession and favored working with other
  2. 4. – an official decision made by a judge or court
  3. 5. – the importance or meaning of an event or idea
  4. 6. – a person chosen to represent others at a convention or meeting
  5. 8. – the rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal
  6. 11. economy – an economic system built around large farms that depended on
  7. 12. states before leaving the Union
  8. 13. President
  9. 16. grow cash crops
  10. 17. – someone who wants to end slavery
  11. 20. labor
  12. 24. people to be returned to their enslavers, even if they reached a free state
  13. 25. – a tax that is placed on goods brought into one country from another
  14. 26. to be