Across
- 4. Plan: The Union's strategy to defeat the Confederacy by surrounding it and cutting off its resources
- 7. Amendment: This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
- 8. wagon: A wagon that follows an army to sell provisions to the soldiers
- 12. The act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity
- 16. A Southern white who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War
- 17. Proclamation: A presidential proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free
- 18. The period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild and readmit Southern states into the Union
- 20. Act: Legislation that allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery
- 23. Amendment: This amendment prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- 24. code: Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights
- 27. soiler: A person who opposed the extension of slavery into new territories
- 29. Slave Act: A law that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners
- 30. Cotton diplomacy: The South's strategy during the Civil War to use its cotton as a bargaining tool with European nations
- 31. The period before the Civil War
- 33. The right to vote in political elections
- 34. Nothing Party: A political party that opposed immigration and Catholic influence in the United States
- 35. The movement to end slavery in the United States
- 37. A person who was in charge of a group of slaves on a plantation
- 38. of 1850: A series of laws intended to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories
- 40. Railroad: A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada
- 41. States of America: The government formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union
- 42. Former slaves who had been emancipated
- 44. To declare invalid
- 46. Party: The political party founded in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery
- 47. Amendment: This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves
- 49. The use of naval forces to prevent movement and trade in and out of ports
- 50. Reconstruction: A period after the Civil War when Congress was in control of Reconstruction
- 51. A brief, unplanned fight between small groups of soldiers
- 52. A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
- 53. To bring formal charges against a public official
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- 1. sovereignty: The principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people
- 2. The drafting of individuals into military service
- 3. A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime
- 5. Codes: Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans
- 6. A law or regulation
- 9. Farmer: A person who owns and cultivates a small farm
- 10. A type of warship heavily armored with iron
- 11. state: A state where slavery was legal
- 13. Bureau: A federal agency established to aid freedmen in the aftermath of the Civil War
- 14. The declared policy of a political party or group
- 15. Reconstruction: The period after the Civil War when the South was occupied by federal troops
- 19. A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, especially for political or financial gain
- 21. Klux Klan: A secret society in the Southern United States that focused on white supremacy and terrorized African Americans
- 22. farming: A system in which a person rents land to farm from a planter
- 25. To add a territory to one's own territory
- 26. Act: Legislation that allowed for the partition of the Cherokee Nation to make room for the state of Georgia
- 28. A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
- 29. State: A state that did not allow slavery
- 32. destiny: The belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent
- 35. A place where weapons and military equipment are stored
- 36. A person who supervises and directs the work of others, especially on a plantation
- 37. Unfair treatment of a person or group based on race, religion, or other characteristics
- 39. The excessive concern for the interests of a particular region over those of the country as a whole
- 43. Compromise: An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also prohibiting slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36°30' parallel
- 45. running: The practice of sneaking goods past a blockade
- 48. rights: The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government