The Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War
  2. 4. the site of the first shots of the Civil War
  3. 7. strategy outlined by the Union Army suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War
  4. 9. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished
  5. 11. important agency of early Reconstruction assisting freedmen in the South
  6. 15. court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality
  7. 16. declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states shall be free.
Down
  1. 1. terms for readmission of representation of rebel states
  2. 2. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  3. 5. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former enslaved people and guaranteed equal protection of the law
  4. 6. was delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg.
  5. 8. surrender of Robert E. Lee to UlyssesGrant
  6. 10. captured by Northern soldiers and imprisoned at Fort Monroe
  7. 12. led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in abolishing slavery
  8. 13. the deadliest one day battle in American military history
  9. 14. First major battle of the American Civil war fought on July 21, 1861