Civil War Era Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The compromise between North and South making California a free state and reinforcing a very strict Fugitive Slave Act
  2. 4. This Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
  3. 8. Battle in South Carolina that started the war
  4. 9. Battle in which the Union won control of the Mississippi River and cut off Texas and other southern states from the rest of the Confederacy.
  5. 11. Deadliest battle of the war, where Lincoln afterwards gave a famous speech
  6. 14. A racist group started by ex confederate soldiers that used violence against African Americans to keep white supremacy.
  7. 15. Name for the group of slave states Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware that did NOT secede from the Union to join the Confederacy.
  8. 17. Belief that states had the right to ignore certain laws from the federal government if they chose
  9. 18. The primary cause of the Civil War
  10. 19. Northern economic system during the Civil War
  11. 21. An invention that separated the seeds from the cotton fibers, leading to an increase in slave labor on cotton plantations.
  12. 23. The Union plan to surround the Confederate states and strangle them economically
  13. 24. The period after the Civil War in which the South was rebuilt and reorganized before being readmitted to the Union.
  14. 25. Bureau An agency set of to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It provided food, clothing and work for them.
Down
  1. 1. Amendment that guaranteed the rights of anyone, including African Americans, who were born in America.
  2. 3. A network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves reach freedom in the Northern free-states or Canada.
  3. 5. People who wanted to abolish or do away with slavery.
  4. 6. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites.
  5. 7. best known African American abolitionist who toured the country talking about the horrors of slavery and started his own abolitionist newspaper called the North Star.
  6. 10. Southern economic system during The Civil War
  7. 12. An escaped slave who became a "conductor" in the Underground Railroad and helped to free thousands of slaves.
  8. 13. A compromise proposed by Senator Henry Clay where Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  9. 16. This Amendment abolished slavery, except as punishment for crimes.
  10. 17. When citizens feel more loyalty toward their state or region than toward their country or other citizens.
  11. 20. An order by President Lincoln declaring that only slaves in the Confederacy (not in any other states) would be free and could join the Union army.
  12. 22. General of the Confederacy