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