Chapter 4; The Union In Peril

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Across
  1. 2. the first African-American senator
  2. 5. a town in southern Pennsylvania that the most decisive battle of the war was fought in
  3. 7. a former senator that was elected as the president of the Mississippi
  4. 8. McClellan ordered his men to pursue Lee, and the two sides fought near a creek
  5. 11. northerners who moved to the South after the war
  6. 12. a union nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross after the war
  7. 13. a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri
  8. 14. a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil war
  9. 17. the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
  10. 18. the first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred about three months after Fort Sumter just 25 miles from Washington D.C
  11. 23. an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves in all regions behind the Confederate lines
  12. 28. the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederates states were readmitted to the Union
  13. 34. it was ratified at the end of 1865. It was about abolishing slavery
  14. 36. white southerners who joined the Republican Party
  15. 37. a tax on earnings
Down
  1. 1. a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the civil war
  2. 3. vice president of Lincoln who became president after Lincoln’s assassination
  3. 4. a town that General Ulysses S. Grant fought to take and it was one of the two remaining Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River
  4. 6. he was modest and willing to go beyond military beyond in his tactics
  5. 7. a 26-year old actor and Southern sympathizer that leaped down from the presidential box to the stage and escaped
  6. 9. he was a democratic candidate that had victory when the Whig vote in the South fell dramatically
  7. 10. a brave and decisive military commander, he was the head of general
  8. 15. town near Appomatox, Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865
  9. 16. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
  10. 19. a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the battle of Gettysburg
  11. 20. was granted as a commander of the military division of the Mississippi
  12. 21. it prevented states from denying right and privileges to any U.S. citizen, now defined as “all persons born or naturalized in U.S.”
  13. 22. a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
  14. 24. Lincoln’s reconstruction plan which were led by Senator Charles Sumner. The plan wanted to destroy the political power of former slave holder
  15. 25. the drafting of citizens for military service
  16. 26. 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth
  17. 27. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
  18. 29. a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised
  19. 30. she published her novel that is called "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  20. 31. it states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  21. 32. the confederate states of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
  22. 33. a nickname given to Thomas T. Jackson by another General
  23. 35. one of the most famous conductors that was born a slave in Maryland.