The Union in Peril

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Across
  1. 2. one of the most famous conductors that was born a slave in Maryland.
  2. 5. a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised
  3. 6. a nickname given to Thomas T. Jackson by another General
  4. 8. a town that General Ulysses S. Grant fought to take and it was one of the two remaining Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River
  5. 10. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
  6. 12. the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederates states were readmitted to the Union
  7. 14. northerners who moved to the South after the war
  8. 15. the confederate states of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
  9. 16. the first African-American senator
  10. 17. was granted as a commander of the military division of the Mississippi
  11. 18. McClellan ordered his men to pursue Lee, and the two sides fought near a creek
  12. 19. a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the civil war
  13. 20. a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the battle of Gettysburg
  14. 21. a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri
  15. 22. he was modest and willing to go beyond military beyond in his tactics
  16. 23. it states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  17. 25. town near Appomatox, Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865
  18. 27. a 26-year old actor and Southern sympathizer that leaped down from the presidential box to the stage and escaped
  19. 28. white southerners who joined the Republican Party
  20. 30. a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
  21. 32. he was a democratic candidate that had victory when the Whig vote in the South fell dramatically
  22. 34. vice president of Lincoln who became president after Lincoln’s assassination
  23. 35. a town in southern Pennsylvania that the most decisive battle of the war was fought in
  24. 36. the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
Down
  1. 1. Lincoln’s reconstruction plan which were led by Senator Charles Sumner. The plan wanted to destroy the political power of former slave holder
  2. 3. the first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred about three months after Fort Sumter just 25 miles from Washington D.C
  3. 4. she published her novel that is called "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  4. 6. U.S politician who engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
  5. 7. it was ratified at the end of 1865. It was about abolishing slavery
  6. 9. is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots which started the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861
  7. 11. it prevented states from denying right and privileges to any U.S. citizen, now defined as “all persons born or naturalized in U.S.”
  8. 13. an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves in all regions behind the Confederate lines
  9. 24. a union nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross after the war
  10. 26. the drafting of citizens for military service
  11. 27. a former senator that was elected as the president of the Mississippi
  12. 29. a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil war
  13. 30. a brave and decisive military commander, he was the head of general
  14. 31. 6th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves
  15. 33. a tax on earnings