Civil War and Reconstruction
Across
- 2. Amendment that allows people of all races to vote
- 4. Union general and future President
- 6. Abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry
- 8. Month in which the Civil War began
- 9. When you must pay to vote
- 13. ________ Court House; location of Confederate surrender
- 14. President after Lincoln
- 16. First African American Senator
- 17. Law requiring Northerners to assist with returning escaped enslaved people
- 19. Terrorist organization that violently opposed civil rights
- 20. Amendment banning slavery
- 24. A reading test to vote
- 25. Freedmens'________; government agency that educated newly freed people
- 27. Address given by Lincoln to commemorate the dead
- 29. Orderfrom Lincoln that made the purpose of the war the end of slavery
- 30. President of the Confederacy
Down
- 1. Era that lasted from 1865 to 1877
- 3. Lincoln's assassin
- 5. How new states in the Mexican Session could decide on the issue of slavery
- 7. Party of Lincoln
- 10. First state to secede from the Union
- 11. BecamePresident in 1877, ending Reconstruction
- 12. Mississippi town captured by Union troops; dividing the Confederacy in two
- 15. General who led a destructive campaign across Georgia
- 18. Nickname for Confederate troops
- 21. Process of attempting to remove a President from office
- 22. System that trapped workers in debt to their landlords
- 23. Jackson; gained this nickname at the Battle of Bull Run
- 26. System of laws promoting segregation
- 28. Nickname for Union troops