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- 3. Buildings where goods are made using machines and workers, often producing items like clothing, tools, or weapons.
- 7. A system of trains and tracks used to transport people and goods quickly across long distances.
- 11. The last battle of the Civil War, fought in Texas in 1865, even though the war had officially ended.
- 12. The group of Northern states that fought to keep the United States together during the Civil War and opposed slavery.
- 13. A system where farmers rented land to grow crops and paid the landowner with money or part of their harvest.
- 18. A type of farming where large farms grow crops like cotton or tobacco, often using enslaved labor.
- 19. Laws passed in the South after the Civil War to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
- 21. An organization created after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people and poor Southerners with food, housing, and education.
- 23. A celebration marking June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 24. Split into different groups with opposing opinions, beliefs, or goals.
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- 1. An order by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
- 2. A law added to the U.S. Constitution in 1865 that ended slavery in the United States.
- 3. A law added to the U.S. Constitution in 1870 that gave African American men the right to vote.
- 4. The way people and businesses make, buy, and sell goods and services in a country or region.
- 5. Rules in the South that enforced racial segregation and treated African Americans unfairly, keeping them separate from white people in schools, restaurants, and more.
- 6. A law passed after the Civil War that divided the South into military districts and required Southern states to follow new rules before rejoining the Union, including protecting the rights of freed African Americans.
- 8. The place in Virginia where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War.
- 9. A law added to the U.S. Constitution in 1868 that made all people born in the U.S. citizens and promised them equal protection under the law.
- 10. People who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
- 14. A system where farmers, often formerly enslaved people, worked land owned by someone else and gave part of their crops as rent.
- 15. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that protect important freedoms like speech, religion, and the right to a fair trial.
- 16. A major Civil War battle in 1863 where the Union gained control of the Mississippi River, cutting off supplies to the Confederacy.
- 17. A plant used to make fabric and one of the most important crops in the Southern United States before and after the Civil War.
- 20. The set of rules that created the government of Texas after Reconstruction and is still in use today.
- 22. Loyalty to your region or state instead of the whole country, often causing conflict.