Civil War

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Across
  1. 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
  2. 4. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent
  3. 6. the period immediately following the civil war in which the United States administration sough to re build society in the formerly confederate states
  4. 8. political debates sparked over the legality of slavery that created violent civil confrontations in Kansas
  5. 10. southerners who supported reconstruction policies and efforts after the war
  6. 11. government agency crated by presidnt lincon to aid the freedmen of the south
  7. 12. the site of the first shots of the civil war
  8. 13. a historic movement that sought to end slavery and free the enslaved people
  9. 15. peoples power: the government gets it's right to rule from the consent of the people
Down
  1. 1. laws passed to restrict the freedom of Blacks in the south
  2. 3. an executive order of President Lincoln that freed all slaves in rebellious states against the federal government
  3. 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
  4. 7. northers who moved to the south after the war
  5. 9. attacked Harper's Ferry and was a prominent abolitionist
  6. 14. 16th president and first republican elected, ten percent plan