Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 6. Amendment that protected the right to vote.
  2. 7. The right to vote.
  3. 8. Pivotal speech by Lincoln that begins with "Four score and seven years ago."
  4. 11. An idea proposed by Stephen A. Douglas that stated US Territories could refuse to police the fugitive slave act.
  5. 12. Amendment that granted citizenship to freed slaves.
  6. 14. A system where an employer compels an employee to pay off their debt with work.
  7. 16. Union strategy to surround and blockade the Confederacy with their navy.
  8. 18. An organization of Confederate civil war veterans that terrorized freedmen and 'carpetbaggers' in the south.
  9. 19. Laws in the south that allowed for segregation between whites and blacks.
Down
  1. 1. Amendment that outlawed Slavery.
  2. 2. The south attempted to use these laws to disenfranchise blacks from voting.
  3. 3. Large movement of African Americans from the south to the north to find employment.
  4. 4. Northerners that went into the south to profit off of reconstruction.
  5. 5. A proposal by slavery sympathetic congressmen to annex and turn Cuba into a slave state.
  6. 9. A system wherein workers were given farm equipment and housing in exchange for half of their crops, replaced slavery at the end of the Civil War.
  7. 10. A supreme court case that ruled that no black man, slave or free, was a US citizen.
  8. 13. A group of senators that believed in heavily punishing the rebellious states after the civil war.
  9. 15. A presidential proclamation that freed all slaves within the rebelling southern states.
  10. 17. Laws that restricted the rights of black people to vote or own property right after the end of the Civil War.