U.S History Vocab

2. Slave states that bordered the northern free states during the U.S Civil War.
4. The settlement of a dispute by concessions on both or all sides.
6. A man-made river.
8. A law requiring any slaves who escaped to a free state to be returned to their owner in a slave state.
10. exhaustion Poorly managed soils are no longer able to support crops or other plant life.
13. To give up to the enemy or opponent.
15. A person who wants to get rid of the institution of slavery.
16. A social change to improve the quality of life of many.

1. The planned murder of an important person for political reasons.
3. To leave/the action of leaving the Union.
5. A reason for doing something.
7. The constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional.
9. Storage for arms, weaponry, etc. for the military.
10. Rights and powers held by individual U.S states rather than by the federal government.
11. Compulsory recruitment for military service.
12. A devotion to the interests of one region over the interests of the whole country.
14. Machine used to pull seeds from cotton.