Across
- 2. assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- 5. first African-American senator
- 6. draft forcing men to serve in the army
- 7. US President during Civil War
- 9. period of rebuilding the Union after the war
- 11. Confederacy President
- 12. amendment that banned slavery from the Union
- 13. Union general who led important Union victories
- 16. author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 17. system of dividing land for several households
- 21. law that freed slaves behind Confederate lines
- 23. Confederate stronghold in Mississippi River
- 24. nation formed by secessionist states
- 26. Southern vigilante group opposing Reconstruction
- 27. Democrat & 14th US President
- 28. agency that aided freed slaves & poor whites
- 32. Union nurse who founded American Red Cross
- 33. right to vote for or against slavery
- 35. general who led Confederate victory at Bull Run
- 36. area where first bloodshed of war occurred
- 37. white Southerner who joined Republican Party
- 38. formal withdrawal of a state from Union
Down
- 1. place of the most decisive battle of the war
- 3. commander who unleashed total war in Georgia
- 4. it prevented states from denying rights & privileges to a US citizen
- 8. system of slave escape routes
- 10. place of bloodiest single day battle in US history
- 14. speech that made America realize that it was a unified nation
- 15. slave who appealed to Supreme Court concerning slavery
- 18. Democratic Senator who ran against Lincoln in Senate
- 19. place of Confederacy's official surrender
- 20. it gave all US citizens, including slaves, right to vote
- 22. minority that wanted to destroy former slaveholders' power
- 25. Confederate general who led important Confederate victories
- 28. Southern fort where Civil War battles began
- 29. tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income
- 30. Northerner who moved South after the war
- 31. famous Underground Railroad conductor
- 34. successor of Abraham Lincoln