RECONSTRUCTION
Across
- 5. Period following the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and reintegrated into the Union
- 7. Courthouse Virginia location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865
- 8. Union general who later became the eighteenth president of the United States
- 13. Slave states that remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War
- 15. System of racial segregation that developed in the South after Reconstruction
- 16. Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights based on race
- 19. President of the Confederate States of America
- 21. Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law
- 23. Movement dedicated to ending slavery in the United States
- 24. __________________of 1877 Agreement that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South
- 25. Battle of __________ Major Union victory often considered the turning point of the Civil War
Down
- 1. Enslaved man whose Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens
- 2. The group of Southern states that seceded from the Union
- 3. Codes Laws passed in the South after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans
- 4. The United States government and states that remained loyal during the Civil War
- 6. Address Lincoln's famous speech honoring those who died at Gettysburg and reaffirming national ideals
- 9. The separation of people based on race
- 10. Battle of__________ Union victory that gave the North control of the Mississippi River
- 11. Proclamation Lincoln's order declaring enslaved people free in Confederate-held territory
- 12. Federal agency created to assist formerly enslaved people after the Civil War
- 14. Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
- 17. Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
- 18. The act of formally withdrawing from the Union
- 20. Military strategy that targets an enemy's economic and civilian resources
- 22. Battle of ___________Bloodiest single day in American military history