Civil war

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Across
  1. 2. The position that the federal government should not interfere with the states exercising their constitutional powers (two words)
  2. 5. Battle started on October 4,1862,when the Union invaded the Gulf of Mexico and forced Confederate forces to retreat
  3. 7. A formerly enslaved person
  4. 8. Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War (two words combined)
  5. 10. Free from outside control; self-governing
  6. 11. Battle occured because the Union tried to gain control of Texas by capturing Fort Griffin (two words)
Down
  1. 1. Focus on the interests of one region
  2. 3. An African American forced to do labor and that was considered property
  3. 4. A group of Southern states that succeeded from the Union to form their own nation with slaves
  4. 6. Someone who supported the Union cause of ending slavery during the Civil War
  5. 9. He quit his job as governor of Texas because he sided with the Union during the Civil War