Civil War and Reconstruction Test Review Crossword

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  1. 3. Linclon succeded in permanentaly abolishing __________ by promoting the passage and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
  2. 5. The Confederate attack upon the Union fort that initiated the war.
  3. 9. The location of where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, which ended the Civil War.
  4. 10. The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all delt with the issue should slavery be allowed in new __________.
  5. 12. This siege was able to divide the Confederate territory in half.
  6. 13. He was from Illinois, became president of the United States and helped bring an end to slavery
  7. 14. Southern states tried to weaken the effects of this amendment by using poll taxes, literacy tests, and Grandfather clauses.
  8. 17. For President Lincoln the ______ always mattered more that the disagreements between the States.
  9. 18. In the court case of ____________ v. Sandford the Missouri Compromise was found Unconstitutional and Slaves taken to free states were still considered slaves.
  10. 19. He was appointed general in chief of the Union army during the Civil War.
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  1. 1. As a result of this amendment African Americans in the South could move elsewhere.
  2. 2. Former slaves being trapped in a cycle of debt was a long-term consequence of the __________ system.
  3. 4. After Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, the main priority of the United States was to implement a plan to bring _____________ states back into the Union.
  4. 6. Southern states passed these in order to limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments.
  5. 7. This Act resulted in fights betten pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
  6. 8. Bank failures, bankrupt businesses, destroyed railroads and farms, high food prices and widespread crop failures were some of the conditions facing the ________ at the beginning of Reconstruction.
  7. 11. The _____________ Proclamation shifted the focus of the war to freedom for all and encouraged African Mericans to fight for the Union
  8. 15. This group was set up for former slaves with things like legal assistance and public schooling.
  9. 16. Lincoln expressed in his speeches that he did not feel the South had a legal ability to _____ from the United States.
  10. 17. One Tactic of the ______ was cut off Confederate states from getting revenue from their agricultural exports.
  11. 20. Hiram Rhodes _________ was the first African Americans elected to the U.S. Senate.