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