Civil War Cross Word Puzzle

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  1. 3. Was the main union military tactic. Blockade Southern ports to restrict manufactured goods to the South.
  2. 7. Who took place as president after Lincoln was assassinated? Who was more harsh on the south during Reconstruction?
  3. 8. General Lee led his team of men to attack near a river called? This battle was the deadliest single-day battle in American history.
  4. 9. First major battle of the civil war. This battle was historically significant because of how many deaths happened that day.
  5. 10. Defend territory against the North and attack when there is an opportunity. Main Confederacy military tactic
  6. 11. Forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories. Changed all african americans lives forever.
  7. 12. President Lincold issued this on January 1st 1863. Changed african americans lives forever.
  8. 15. An amendment that granted citizenship and equal, civil, and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country. Also was the Amendment that Plessy pleaded he was violated from.
  9. 16. Laws that were passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation. These laws revoked african americans rights to own property and move freely through the U.S.
Down
  1. 1. Guaranteed all MEN despite color, race, and past status the right to vote. Passed on February 26, 1869 by congress.
  2. 2. Was a hate group filled with white supremacist that hated African Americans. They killed hundreds of women and children by hanging them.
  3. 4. After the civil war they reorganized the Southern states after the Civil War and made the south a place where whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society.
  4. 5. What town did Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met at a private residence in Virginia? Where was the civil war officially declared over?
  5. 6. Man's best friend
  6. 13. What president issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared slaves shall be free. What president was assassinated?
  7. 14. Drafting citizens and immigrant men to serve in the army. This happened because both sides of the war had major casualties.