Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Rights: The legal rights and protections granted to all citizens, including equal treatment under the law.
  2. 6. Proclamation: An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free.
  3. 7. A person who advocated for the complete and immediate abolition (elimination) of slavery.
  4. 8. Railroad: A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom in the North and Canada.
Down
  1. 1. The act of a state or group of states formally withdrawing from the Union.
  2. 3. An agreement reached through mutual concessions between conflicting parties. Compromises such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 aimed to address issues related to slavery.
  3. 4. The Southern states that seceded from the United States and formed their own government during the Civil War.
  4. 5. The Northern states of the United States during the Civil War, also referred to as the United States or the federal government.