Across
- 2. a system of selecting people for required military service
- 3. codes- laws in a southern state that controlled enslaved people
- 4. ruffian- armed pro, slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas
- 7. person who is running away from legal authority
- 10. person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else
- 13. reward or payment
- 14. an African American religious folk song
- 15. to add a territory to ones own territory
- 16. Destiny- the belief that the United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
- 19. to place within a trench, or ditch, for defense; to place in a strong defensive position
- 20. unfair treatment
- 24. person opposed to immigration
- 27. Railroad- a system od cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
- 29. union- group of workers with the same trade or skill
- 33. person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority
- 34. to formally join a military force
- 36. religious meeting
- 37. War- conflict between citizens of the same country
- 38. fortune seeker who came to California during the gold rush
- 42. a warship equipped with iron plating for protection
- 46. town- a fast growing community
- 47. to block off
- 51. the ability to read and write
- 52. rancher, owner of a rancho
- 53. farmer who owns a small farm
- 54. a Texan of Latin America, often Mexican, descent
- 55. a work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer
- 56. a device that used electric signals to send messages
- 57. corpus- a legal writ, or order, that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court
- 58. school- state supported school for training high school graduates to become teachers
- 59. the side or edge of a military formation
Down
- 1. a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a battle
- 2. official order
- 5. the right to vote
- 6. ship- ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that "clipped" time from long journeys
- 8. rights- theory that individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs
- 9. an unfair opinion not based on facts
- 11. war- a strategy of bringing war to the entire society, not just the military
- 12. men- an adventurer of the American west
- 17. Proclamation- decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion on January 1,1863
- 18. the teaching of males and females together
- 21. the period of rebuilding the Southern states into the Union
- 22. person who sought the end of slavery in the United States
- 23. code- a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
- 25. a place to store weapons and military equipment
- 26. drinking little or no alcohol
- 28. an extreme shortage of food
- 30. occupation- situation in which people from 2 countries can occupy an area
- 31. Schooner- a canvas covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
- 32. withdrawal
- 35. state- state on the border between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
- 39. plantation manager
- 40. stream of smaller river that feeds into a larger river
- 41. refusal to give in
- 43. the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons
- 44. community based on a vision of the perfect society
- 45. disobedience- refusing to obey laws considered unjust
- 48. to officially leave an organization
- 49. person who dies for a great cause
- 50. ranch, especially the large estates set up by Mexicans in the American west