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