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- 5. person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry
- 6. an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state with slavery and Maine was admitted as a state without slavery
- 9. Proviso a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War
- 14. person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests
- 18. the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
- 20. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
- 21. a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)
- 22. the right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether he or she is being imprisoned lawfully
- 23. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
- 24. a village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant
- 25. a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country
- 27. a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue
- 28. 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 enslaved
- 29. a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded
- 30. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection of the law
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- 1. 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
- 2. the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
- 3. a hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton
- 4. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
- 7. an influence that draws someone to a new location
- 8. the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state without slavery. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
- 10. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
- 11. 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
- 12. the clearing away of forests
- 13. an order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate states to be free
- 15. an influence that drives someone away from a location
- 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.
- 17. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
- 19. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
- 26. another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union