Across
- 2. Was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom.
- 4. Escaped slave that became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
- 5. Large railroad built to help the expantion of western development and to get people to occupy the newly bought territory.
- 6. Federal agency that aided distressed freed slaves.
- 9. Passed by Lincoln that free slaves in the states that were rebelling, didn’t really free many slaves because of the confederacy.
- 11. Series of trails that would lead fugitive slaves to get to the northern states for freedom.
- 13. A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
- 14. Major leader in the underground railroad, lead many escaped slaves to freedom.
- 15. The process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.
Down
- 1. Freed slaves, declared anyone born or naturalized in the US to be a citizen, allowed any race to be able to vote.
- 3. These acts divided the south into five military districts. Each district was placed under military leadership.
- 7. Were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 to restrict African American’s rights.
- 8. Law passed to prevent another uprising.
- 10. Arguements over the divisions of slave states and free states in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48).
- 12. During and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.