Civil War and the Reconstruction Assessment

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Across
  1. 3. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
  2. 5. War in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy.
  3. 10. Ended slavery in confederate states
  4. 15. To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  5. 16. Confederacy
  6. 17. President during the Reconstruction
  7. 18. Separated the sticky seeds from the fibers in short-staple cotton
  8. 20. Abolished Slavery
  9. 21. Government based on consent of the people.
Down
  1. 1. Members of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.
  2. 2. Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
  3. 4. Granted African American men the right to vote.
  4. 6. Union
  5. 7. Codes restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
  6. 8. A network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
  7. 9. Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States,"
  8. 11. When one part of a country that wants to become independent, like the South during the U.S. Civil War.
  9. 12. Segregation and disenfranchisement laws
  10. 13. Goal was to preserve the Union
  11. 14. Made travel westward quicker and more efficient in the 1800s.
  12. 19. System where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.