Civil War and Reconstruction
Across
- 6. Renting land by paying with a portion of the crop produced
- 8. Last name of the General of the Confederate Army
- 10. Last name of the President of the Confederate States
- 11. Last name of the President of the Union
- 16. Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy by "squeezing" them in
- 19. A statement issued by President Lincoln that free slaves in the Confederate states at the end of the war
- 21. An amendment to the Constitution that gave all male citizens the right to vote
- 22. Last name of the President who was almost impeached
Down
- 1. shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out
- 2. A 3 minute speech given by President Lincoln at the site of the Gettysburg battle that inspired the Union
- 3. An agency set up to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
- 4. An amendment to the Constitution that gave all African Americans citizenship and protection under the law
- 5. Bringing charges against an elected official by the House of Representatives
- 7. Amendment to the US Constitution to abolish slavery in 1865
- 9. the rebuilding or healing of the country after the war
- 12. Last name of the General of the Union Army
- 13. Laws that denied African Americans many civil rights
- 14. Requires men of a certain age to serve in the military if they are called
- 15. The separation of whites and blacks
- 17. Last name of the guy who lead the "March to the Sea"
- 18. The murder of a political or government leader
- 20. A method of warfare used to destroy the opposing army and the people's will to fight