Civil War
Across
- 2. "four score and seven years ago" was the opening of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln and is one of the most important speeches in history
- 4. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent
- 6. the period immediately following the civil war in which the United States administration sough to re build society in the formerly confederate states
- 8. political debates sparked over the legality of slavery that created violent civil confrontations in Kansas
- 10. southerners who supported reconstruction policies and efforts after the war
- 11. government agency crated by presidnt lincon to aid the freedmen of the south
- 12. the site of the first shots of the civil war
- 13. a historic movement that sought to end slavery and free the enslaved people
- 15. peoples power: the government gets it's right to rule from the consent of the people
Down
- 1. laws passed to restrict the freedom of Blacks in the south
- 3. an executive order of President Lincoln that freed all slaves in rebellious states against the federal government
- 5. an extremists group that reappeared in three different eras and originally acted as a vigilante group that targeted newly freed black populations and Republican politicians in the Reconstruction governments of the former Confederacy
- 7. northers who moved to the south after the war
- 9. attacked Harper's Ferry and was a prominent abolitionist
- 14. 16th president and first republican elected, ten percent plan