Unit 7 Vocabulary Crossword

3. Peacefully refusing to obey laws that are considered unjust.
10. A political party formed to stop the spread of slavery into new territories.
12. The right to vote in elections.
13. A belief that people should follow their conscience and that nature and individual thinking are more important than material things.
16. A secret network of routes and safehouses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North or Canada.

1. Constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War that ended slavery (13th), granted citizenship & equal protection under the law (14th), and gave black men the right to vote (15th).
2. The Period after the Civil War when the United States worked to rebuild the South and bring Southern states back into the Union.
4. A movement that tried to reduce or ban the use of alcohol.
5. Slave states that did not leave the Union during the Civil War (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, & Delaware).
6. When a state formally withdraws from the United States.
7. A short speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that honored fallen soldiers and emphasized equality and preserving the Union.
8. The 11 Southern states that left the Union and formed their own government during the Civil War.
9. An 1857 Supreme Court ruling that said enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
11. An order issued by President Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
14. A group of laws passed to settle the issue of slavery in new territories, including admitting California as a free state and creating a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
15. The Northern states of the United States during the Civil War.