Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 4. System An economy based on agricultural mass production of cash crops grown on large farms that used slave labor.
  2. 5. Codes Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War
  3. 7. Bureau An agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people in obtaining equal rights.
  4. 11. Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation that freed the slaves.
  5. 12. War A war fought between northern states and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America
  6. 14. Preconceived opinion about someone that is not based on reason or actual experience.
  7. 15. Crow Laws State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  8. 16. The forced separation of different racial groups.
Down
  1. 1. Courthouse On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House signaling the end of the nation's Civil War.
  2. 2. Sovereignty The controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
  3. 3. Steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides
  4. 6. Plan The military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coast.
  5. 8. The effort after the war was over to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.
  6. 9. A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
  7. 10. Soldier that was loyal to the Union.
  8. 13. Soldier that was loyal to the Confederacy.