Across
- 5. A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation
- 7. withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
- 10. The southern states during the civil war that supported slavery
- 11. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- 12. declared that all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union shall be free
- 13. an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States
Down
- 1. An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent good or people from entering or leaving
- 2. Period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877
- 3. The practice or system of owning slaves
- 4. A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- 6. The northern states during the civil war that opposed slavery
- 8. The Calvary were forces that fought principally on horseback, also armed with carbines, pistols, and sabers
- 9. The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government