The Union In Peril

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Across
  1. 3. White Southerners who joined the Republican Party
  2. 4. union victory in Mississippi
  3. 8. System in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops
  4. 12. Northerners who moved to the South after the war
  5. 13. Battle won by the Confederates
  6. 14. Tax that takes a percentage of an individual's income
  7. 17. Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederate lines
  8. 18. Assassin of President Lincoln
  9. 19. Decision by a state to leave a union
  10. 22. Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom
  11. 24. A secret group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting
  12. 25. Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South
  13. 26. The confederate states of america
  14. 27. Union fort in Charleston,South Carolina
  15. 28. Union victory
Down
  1. 1. Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of slave holders
  2. 2. First African-American senator
  3. 5. Site of the Confederate surrender
  4. 6. Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States
  5. 7. Important speech bu President Lincoln
  6. 9. The period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War
  7. 10. Commander of Union troops in Georgia and South Carolina
  8. 11. President during the civil war
  9. 15. Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory
  10. 16. The right to vote for or against slavery
  11. 20. Drafting of civilians to serve in the army
  12. 21. Famous "conductor" on the underground railroad
  13. 23. Most decisive battle of the war