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| a person selected to vote for the President and Vice President |
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| forcing a person into public service, especially the navy |
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| a government order that stops trade with other countries |
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| the making or producing of goods by business and factories |
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| a part that can be used in place of another part in manufactured products |
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| a method of making large numbers of goods quickly and cheaply |
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| a machine, invented by Eli Whitney, that separates cotton from seeds |
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| a person who watches over and directs the work of others |
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| a tax on goods brought into a country |
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| the system of giving government jobs to people who had helped to get the winner elected |
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| a fur trapper and trader who lived in the mountains and new the wilderness |
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| a person who went to California in 1849 to find gold |
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| a large farm with grazing land for raising horses, cattle, or sheep |
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| having to do with the country (not city) |
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| having to do with the city |
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| a person who comes to a country to live there |
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| a time when people starve because there is not enough food |
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| rights that all people in a society should have |
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| a person who works for a cause that improves the way something is done in a society |
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| a reform movement that is against drinking alcohol |
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| a state that didn't allow slavery |
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| a state in which slavery was allowed |
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| loyalty to one region of a country instead of to the whole country |
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| a person who runs away or escapes |
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| a person who wanted to end slavery |
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| a network of secret escape routes enslaved African Americans followed to reach freedom in the North |
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| a system that allowed people in a territory to make their own decisions |
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| a person whose opinions are very different from those of most people |
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| to break away from, as a state leaving the Union |
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| a war between regions or groups of people in the same country |
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| a slave state between the North and South that remained in the Union during the Civil War |
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| rule by an army instead of by elected officials |
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| a person killed, injured, or captured in war |
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| a person who is not a soldier |
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| drafting of people for military service |
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| unjust treatment of a person based on false ideas about a particular group |
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| the description of food, equipment, and anything else of use to soldiers and civilians |
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| to murder a political leader like a President |
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| a person who has served in the armed forces |
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| the time period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild the South |
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| a series of southern laws to limit the freedom of African Americans |
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| rights belonging to all citizens |
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| to accuse a high public official (like the President of the United States) of a crime |
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| the separation of people by race |
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| a name for a Northerner who sent to the South after the Civil War |
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| a name for a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction government |
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