Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. Forced military service (the draft).
  2. 6. Southern Democrats called themselves this as Reconstruction weakened because they saw themselves as winning back the South.
  3. 8. Republican who won the presidential election of 1876 against Samuel J. Tilden due to the Compromise of 1877.
  4. 11. Slaveholding states that stayed in the Union:
  5. 13. A congressional group that wanted Reconstruction to be tougher on the South, and wanted freedmen to have the same rights as white citizens.
  6. 15. Confederate capital in Virginia.
  7. 16. Lincoln's vice president; sworn in as president after Lincoln's assassination.
  8. 17. People killed, wounded, captured, or missing in war.
Down
  1. 1. Laws passed by southern states that kept freedmen in a slave-like condition in order to give planters a supply of cheap labor. Freedmen could be required to sign a contract to work for a planter, and refusing could land them in jail for being jobless.
  2. 3. In this system, the employer provided the land, the seed, and tools. The farmer got a share of the crop they raised, but no wages. By the end of the 1870s most freedmen and many poor white southerners were this type of farmer.
  3. 4. Agency created by Congress as the war ended to assist Civil War refugees and freed former slaves.
  4. 5. Amendment to the Constitution that stated people could not be denied the right to vote because of their race.
  5. 7. A southerner who supported Reconstruction. Manywere farmers who had never owned slaves and had been against the war, and joined the Republicans to prevent the old planter class from returning to power. Others were business leaders who wanted to end the South's long dependence on agriculture.
  6. 9. from 1865 to 1877 during which the United States focused on rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
  7. 10. Amendment to the Constitution that ended all slavery in the U.S.
  8. 12. Emancipated former slaves.
  9. 14. Civil War Union nurse; one of the first women to be allowed to care for the wounded on the battlefield.
  10. 16. Confederate general who earned a nickname during the First Battle of Bull Run