US History 4

4. A farming system where workers farmed land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops, often trapping them in debt
5. An amendment that officially abolished slavery in the United States.
6. A law that allowed settlers to decide if their territory would allow slavery, leading to violent conflict known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
8. The Northern states during the Civil War that remained loyal to the United States.
10. An amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
11. A secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North or Canada.
13. A set of laws that attempted to balance free and slave states and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.

1. An amendment that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
2. Laws passed in the South after the Civil War to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
3. A speech by Abraham Lincoln that emphasized equality and the importance of preserving the Union.
7. The Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed their own government during the Civil War.
9. The act of formally leaving the United States, done by Southern states before the Civil War.
12. A person who worked to end slavery in the United States.