Civil War and Reconstruction
Across
- 2. System where freedmen worked land owned by others for a share of the crops
- 5. Agency assisting freed slaves during Reconstruction
- 8. Acts Laws dividing the South into military districts
- 9. President after Lincoln, faced impeachment
- 15. President during the Civil War
- 18. Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War
- 19. Lincoln's declaration freeing slaves in Confederate states
- 21. Key issue leading to the Civil War
- 23. Act of Southern states leaving the Union
- 24. Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) ensuring rights for African Americans
- 25. Laws restricting the rights of freedmen after the Civil War
- 27. General of the Union Army
- 28. Conductor of the Underground Railroad
- 29. Courthouse where Lee surrendered to Grant
- 30. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
Down
- 1. General of the Confederate Army
- 3. Congress members who supported harsh Reconstruction policies
- 4. First battle of the Civil War
- 6. Group using violence to oppose Reconstruction
- 7. Bloodiest single-day battle in American history
- 10. Assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- 11. Agreement ending Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South
- 12. State laws enforcing racial segregation in the South
- 13. Principle used by Southern states to justify secession
- 14. Abolished slavery in the United States
- 16. Major turning point battle of the Civil War
- 17. Union campaign through the South causing widespread destruction
- 20. Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction
- 22. Nurse who founded the American Red Cross
- 26. President of the Confederate States of America