Reconstruction Crossword
Across
- 6. 13th-abolished slavery 14th-granted citienzenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the Us
- 7. A war between citizens of the same country, American Civil War was a war between Americans over state rights and lasted 4 years.
- 8. The Action of formally withdrawing from a federation
- 9. Enslaved african american, unsucssesuflly sued for his freedom, the case went to the supreme court.
- 11. To be set free. Lincolns emancipation proclamation set free all slaves in the conferacy only
- 13. Numerous laws enacrd in the former Confederate states after the Civil War which limited the rights and liverties of African Americans.
- 14. Secret society that used violence against freedman and their white supporters, they practiced violence to intimidage newly freed aftican-americans
- 15. Abolitonist, led attacks in kansas during "bleeding kansas", planned to arm slaves in a revolt
- 16. The owner of a plot of land lets someone work the land in exchange for ½ or more of the crop, it was used to keep newly freed slaves in a cycle of poverty.
- 17. The period of US history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal gov't set the conditons
- 18. Required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states must cooperate.
- 19. -prohibited the denial of the vote because of race, color, or previous servitude
Down
- 1. Referred to as the confederacy, name of the unrecognized country temporarily create by the southern states which seceded from the untion
- 2. The divison of power between state and federal (or national) govt. The Civil War started over a fight over states rights. The Southern states believed they had the right to decid to leep slavery and not pay tariffs.
- 3. This law allowed those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery by utilizing popular sovereignty.
- 4. Slave states that stayed with the union during the civil war.
- 5. An Anti-slavery novel by Harritet Beecher Stowe. It helped spread the abolitionist movement throughout the north.
- 10. California wanted to join the union as a free state which cased conflict between the North and the South.
- 12. 16th president, president during to Civil War