Chapter 2 Part 2 Crossword

2. Was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom.
4. Escaped slave that became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
5. Large railroad built to help the expantion of western development and to get people to occupy the newly bought territory.
6. Federal agency that aided distressed freed slaves.
9. Passed by Lincoln that free slaves in the states that were rebelling, didn’t really free many slaves because of the confederacy.
11. Series of trails that would lead fugitive slaves to get to the northern states for freedom.
13. A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
14. Major leader in the underground railroad, lead many escaped slaves to freedom.
15. The process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.

1. Freed slaves, declared anyone born or naturalized in the US to be a citizen, allowed any race to be able to vote.
3. These acts divided the south into five military districts. Each district was placed under military leadership.
7. Were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 to restrict African American’s rights.
8. Law passed to prevent another uprising.
10. Arguements over the divisions of slave states and free states in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48).
12. During and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.