Reconstruction Crossword

2. Amendment / protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin. It also protected the voting rights of former slaves.
3. Earth / is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location
5. / The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
7. / A nickname for the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy.
9. McNeal Turner / an educated minister who had served as the first black chaplain in the U.S. Army.
10. / An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
11. Klux Klan / as a social club for former confederate soldiers, but it quickly became more political and violent.
12. Prison / One of the most notorious sites of the Civil War was the Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia.
14. Plan / Union's strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War.
16. / fought on September 18 – 20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia
18. T. Sherman /was a U.S. Civil War Union Army leader known for "Sherman's March," in which he and his troops laid waste to the South.
19. Farming / made similar arrangements with landowners where they rented sections of land.

1. to Sea / began after Sherman captured, evacuated, and burned Atlanta in the fall of 1864.
2. Amendment / no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of.
4. / The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
6. / the owner would lend the worker a place to live, his seeds, and farm equipment.
8. Bureau /Some Northerners came to the South to support the freed black slaves who were uneducated and unemployed.
13. Proclamation / An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that slaves in the Confederate states were to be set free.
15. Amendment / Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
17. Campaign /was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.