Road to the Civil War Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- abolition : ending slavery.
- missouri compromise : 1820 agreement to address slavery.
- compromise of 1850 : laws easing north-south tensions.
- fugitive slave law : mandated capture of runaway slaves.
- dred scott case : 1857 ruling that african americans were not citizens.
- abraham lincoln : issued the emancipation proclamation.
- secession : a state withdrawing from the u.s.
- confederacy : southern states opposing the union in the civil war.
- emancipation : freeing enslaved people.
- freedmen : formerly enslaved individuals.
- reconstruction : rebuilding the south post-civil war.
- share cropping : farming system for freedmen.
- civil war amendments : 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
- equal protection : fairness under the law for all citizens.
- jim crow laws : enforced racial discrimination.
- segregation : forced racial separation.
