Chapter 4 Vocabulary: The Union in Peril

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Across
  1. 2. assassin of Abraham Lincoln
  2. 5. first African-American senator
  3. 6. draft forcing men to serve in the army
  4. 7. US President during Civil War
  5. 9. period of rebuilding the Union after the war
  6. 11. Confederacy President
  7. 12. amendment that banned slavery from the Union
  8. 13. Union general who led important Union victories
  9. 16. author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  10. 17. system of dividing land for several households
  11. 21. law that freed slaves behind Confederate lines
  12. 23. Confederate stronghold in Mississippi River
  13. 24. nation formed by secessionist states
  14. 26. Southern vigilante group opposing Reconstruction
  15. 27. Democrat & 14th US President
  16. 28. agency that aided freed slaves & poor whites
  17. 32. Union nurse who founded American Red Cross
  18. 33. right to vote for or against slavery
  19. 35. general who led Confederate victory at Bull Run
  20. 36. area where first bloodshed of war occurred
  21. 37. white Southerner who joined Republican Party
  22. 38. formal withdrawal of a state from Union
Down
  1. 1. place of the most decisive battle of the war
  2. 3. commander who unleashed total war in Georgia
  3. 4. it prevented states from denying rights & privileges to a US citizen
  4. 8. system of slave escape routes
  5. 10. place of bloodiest single day battle in US history
  6. 14. speech that made America realize that it was a unified nation
  7. 15. slave who appealed to Supreme Court concerning slavery
  8. 18. Democratic Senator who ran against Lincoln in Senate
  9. 19. place of Confederacy's official surrender
  10. 20. it gave all US citizens, including slaves, right to vote
  11. 22. minority that wanted to destroy former slaveholders' power
  12. 25. Confederate general who led important Confederate victories
  13. 28. Southern fort where Civil War battles began
  14. 29. tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income
  15. 30. Northerner who moved South after the war
  16. 31. famous Underground Railroad conductor
  17. 34. successor of Abraham Lincoln