8th American History, Reform to Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. After the Civil War the south needed to be rebuilt
  2. 4. Wanted to punish the south for the Civil War
  3. 6. Wrote "The Liberator
  4. 7. A runaway slave who wrote the North Star Newspaper and helped other runaway slaves
  5. 11. Union captured Mississippi River which divided the Confederacy in half
  6. 12. Civil War U.S. president who wanted to preserve the Union
  7. 14. Founded by Emerson and Thoreau who focused on ideal societies and individualism
  8. 15. Worked to improve prison conditions and create facilities for the mentally ill
  9. 17. North and South agreed, California became a free state, and Fugitive Slave Law passed
  10. 18. Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  11. 19. Worked to stop slavery
  12. 20. Region’s geography impacted its economy- North, South, and West, cause of Civil War
  13. 21. mining precious metals and agriculture
  14. 22. Movement led by women who were fighting to decrease alcohol consumption
  15. 23. Law passed allowing southern slave owners to bring the runaway slaves back to owner
  16. 24. Right to vote
Down
  1. 1. Plantation system, slave labor, cotton
  2. 3. Gave suffrage (voting rights) to African American males
  3. 5. Conductor in the Underground Railroad
  4. 8. Called for women's suffrage and wrote Declaration of Sentiments
  5. 9. Union Advantage
  6. 10. Led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  7. 13. Plantation system, slave labor, cotton produced
  8. 16. Encouraged people to be more religious
  9. 19. Court House in Virginia where the Confederacy surrendered to the Union and ended the war