Civil war and Reconstruction
Across
- 1. This granted citizenship to all Americans regardless of race.
- 3. This gave all American men the right to vote, regardless of race or wealth.
- 4. North's plan to blockade the Southern ports and dividing the South by taking control of the Mississippi.
- 7. Northerners who moved to the South to provide governmental assistance or for their own profit; some came because the South represented the land of opportunity.
- 12. Northern Republicans who contested Lincoln’s treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments.
- 14. Southerners who supported Northern and Republican viewpoints during Reconstruction.
- 15. The time period after the Civil War during which the South rejoined the Union.
- 17. A bill that stated that southern states could reenter the Union after 50% of their voters pledged allegiance to the US.
Down
- 2. This stated that slaves in rebel states would be set free on 1 January 1863.
- 5. Provided for the immediate needs of those who had been freed from slavery.
- 6. A racist secret society which used violence and intimidation to restrict the progress made by African-Americans.
- 8. the type of farming system set up on plantations after slaves were freed to benefit them and the owners.
- 9. A set of legislations which balanced concessions to Black Southerners with restrictions and limitations.
- 10. President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
- 11. He took over the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination.
- 13. This abolished slavery in the United States.
- 16. Reconstruction plan by Lincoln stating that a state would be readmitted when 10% of the voting population had taken an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.