Ch 4 American History
Across
- 2. the city under siege for 9 months
- 4. union war plan by Winfield Scott
- 5. abolished slavery
- 7. a reading and writing test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans form voting
- 8. 16th president; president during the Civil War
- 10. "separate, but not equal"
- 15. laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
- 16. photographer during the Civil War
- 17. a negative term for Northern who moved to the South after the Civil War
- 18. warships covered with protective iron plates
- 19. a government in which the people rule by their own consent
- 20. a sum of money to be paid before a person could vote
- 21. first and only Confederate president
- 23. bloodiest battle of the Civil War
- 24. a radical republican
Down
- 1. tax paid to the state, federal, and local government based on income earned over the past year
- 3. a law to disqualify African Americans voters by allowing the vote only to men whose fathers and grandfathers had vote before 1866 and 1867
- 6. known as the "KKK"
- 9. states created laws to segregate blacks from whites in the South, violence against blacks was widespread
- 11. a negative term for a Southern white who supported the Republican Party after the Civil War
- 12. a system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planters land in return for a share of the crop
- 13. he created the cotton gin
- 14. Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware
- 21. the date the Confederates forces surrender at Vicksburg
- 22. capital of Virginia