Civil War and Reconstruction Crossword

2. Confederate prison camp known for harsh conditions and high death rates
4. set of laws that attempted to balance free and slave states and ease tensions
6. belief that states can declare federal laws unconstitutional and ignore them
8. Plan to reunite the nation quickly with lenient terms
9. Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories
15. Group that used violence to oppose rights for African-Americans/Blacks
16. Georgia’s statement supporting the Compromise of 1850 while warning against limiting slavery further
18. agency that helped formerly enslaved people with education and jobs
22. Farming system where farmers rented land and paid with cash or crops
23. system where farmers worked land for a share of the crops
24. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection under the law
25. idea that states have the power to make their own decisions over the federal government
27. Plan that caused conflict with Congress

1. Union effort to capture Atlanta and weaken the Confederacy
3. Campaign destroying resources from Atlanta to Savannah
5. Proclamation order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states
7. Northern strategy to block Southern ports and cut off supplies
10. major Civil War battle in Georgia with a Confederate victory
11. conflict between the North and South from 1861 to 1865
12. Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
13. Amendment giving African-American men the right to vote
14. period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
17. election where Lincoln won, leading Southern states to begin seceding
19. 16th U.S. president who led the Union during the Civil War
20. act of Southern states leaving the Union
21. Reconstruction Plan plan placing the South under military control with stronger protections for freedmen
26. system where people were treated as property and forced to work without pay