Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 2. full name of the southern assassin/actor that killed Abraham Lincoln in an insurrectionist plot after the end of the war
  2. 3. Nicknamed Little Mac and Young Napoleon, this former union General ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864 and lost
  3. 7. Full name of the head northern General for the 2nd half of the war and had the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" and became the 18th President
  4. 9. White Supremacist organization that became powerful and terrorized African-Americans and their supporters after the Civil War to prevent them from become full members of society
  5. 10. Nickname for the racist laws created during and after reconstruction by state governments to go around federal law and restrict the rights of African-Americans
  6. 11. event that occurred in the capital of the Confederacy over a lack of food and hyperinflated prices in the winter of 1863. Showed that the southern economy was suffering although they were winning battles
  7. 13. This group wanted to punish the south after the Civil War and instituted Military Reconstruction on the south during their short time in power in Congress
Down
  1. 1. Name of the agricultural system that developed after the Civil War in the south where former slaves ended up poor and still working and living in the fields as if barely anything had changed since before the war
  2. 4. Famous union victory in Pennsylvania which is considered one of the turning points of the war after Lee was soundly defeated on day three in "Pickett's Charge"
  3. 5. Law that officially freed the slaves
  4. 6. Nickname of the number one cash crop of the southern agricultural export business which was supposed to bring in European support during the Civil War, but never did
  5. 8. Union strategy for victory devised by Winfield Scott which blocked off southern naval ports, and cut the south in half by taking the Mississippi River
  6. 11. Full name of the head southern General for most of the war
  7. 12. Executive Order issued by Abraham Lincoln that promised to free the slaves in states that were in rebellion (the Confederacy)