Unit 7 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg and memory of the Union Soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.
  2. 5. a person who flees or tries to escape ( for example, from slavery).
  3. 6. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
  4. 8. a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country.
  5. 10. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave.
  6. 11. an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
  7. 12. an order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring slaves in the Confederate states are to be free.
  8. 13. the right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether he or she is being imprisoned lawfully.
  9. 16. the United States as one nation United under a single government. During the Civil War “The Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North
  10. 17. the period after the Civil War in which southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union.
  11. 18. A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.
  12. 20. a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas who are candidates in the Illinois race for the U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.
  13. 21. another name for the Confederate States of America made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union.
Down
  1. 1. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law.
  2. 3. a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African-Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
  3. 4. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the south after the Civil War.
  4. 7. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens especially. equal treatment under the law
  5. 9. a village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant.
  6. 14. The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. these agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington,D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
  7. 15. an Act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.
  8. 19. Bureau an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans.