Civil War Terms Crossword Puzzle

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• slavery : the practice of forcing people to work without pay or freedom, especially african americans in the south before and during the civil war.
• states' rights : the belief that individual states have the power to make their own laws, especially about things like slavery, without interference from the federal government.
• missouri : _ compromise- a law that allowed missouri to enter as a slave state and maine as a free state to keep the balance; it also banned slavery in parts of the louisiana territory north of missouri’s southern border.
• compromise : _ of 1850 - a set of 5 laws that tried to settle disputes over slavery, including allowing california to enter as a free state and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
• kansas nebraska act : a law that let the people in kansas and nebraska vote on whether to allow slavery—this led to violence known as “bleeding kansas.”
• dred scott decision : a supreme court ruling that said enslaved people were property, not citizens, and that congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
• emancipation : _ proclamation - an order by president abraham lincoln that declared all enslaved people in confederate states to be free.
• confederacy : the group of 11 southern states that seceded from the united states and fought against the union in the civil war.
• union : the united states (mostly northern states) that stayed together and fought to preserve the country during the civil war.
• underground railroad : a secret network of people and safe places that helped enslaved people escape from the south to freedom in the north or canada.