Across
- 3. Lincoln’s declaration freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
- 6. The movement to end slavery in the United States
- 7. A speech delivered by Lincoln to honor fallen soldiers
- 13. Political party that opposed the expansion of slavery
- 15. The last major battle of the Civil War
- 16. Abolished slavery in the U.S.
- 18. A network of secret routes to help enslaved people escape
- 20. The group that pushed for harsher Reconstruction policies
- 22. Violent conflict over slavery in a western territory
- 23. Agreement that admitted California as a free state
- 24. Laws in the South that enforced racial segregation
- 26. A farming system keeping freedmen in cycles of debt
- 28. Organization created to provide aid and education to freed slaves
- 29. The name given to the South after Reconstruction ended
- 30. System where plantation owners provided supplies in exchange for labor
- 33. Confederate general known for his military strategie
- 34. Supreme Court case ruling that African Americans were not citizens
- 35. The idea that states could decide issues like slavery
- 36. Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
- 38. The speech where Lincoln reaffirmed the nation's principles
- 39. The belief that it was America’s destiny to expand westward
Down
- 1. Law passed in 1854 allowing states to decide on slavery
- 2. A plan that divided the South into military districts
- 4. The Union general who accepted Lee's surrender
- 5. The Union general known for his "March to the Sea"
- 8. A document that formally withdrew a state from the Union
- 9. The first battle of the Civil War
- 10. Granted citizenship and equal protection to African Americans
- 11. Union strategy to blockade the South during the Civil War
- 12. Required citizens to return escaped enslaved people
- 14. Law that restricted African American rights after the Civil War
- 17. Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction
- 19. Site of Lee's surrender, ending the Civil War
- 21. President of the Confederate States
- 25. Secret society that opposed Reconstruction efforts
- 26. The amendment that officially abolished slavery
- 27. The amendment that granted Black men the right to vote
- 31. Battle considered the turning point of the Civil War
- 32. Law that led to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment
- 37. The practice of charging African Americans fees to vote
