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- 3. A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the Southern after the Civil War
- 5. American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
- 6. A creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil Wa
- 8. A white Southerner who joined the Republican Party of the Civil War
- 11. A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
- 12. U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71
- 14. Scene of a crucial battle during the American Civil War, in which Meade's Union forces defeated Lee's Confederate army; site of the national cemetery dedicated by President Lincoln
- 16. A system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
- 19. An amendment to the U.S Constitution, adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
- 21. 14th President of the United States
- 22. American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War
- 23. The Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
- 25. An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind the Confederate lines
- 27. The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union
- 29. A tax on earnings
- 31. A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
- 32. A famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
- 33. During the Civil War, this city was besieged from 1862 to 1863 and finally captured by troops led by Ulysses S. Grant
- 35. An amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- 36. A faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877
- 38. 17th President of the United States
- 39. U.S abolitionist that became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
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- 1. United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln
- 2. A fort in SE South Carolina, in the harbor of Charleston: its bombardment by the Confederates opened the Civil War on April 12, 1861
- 4. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
- 7. United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause
- 9. Town near Appomattox, Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865
- 10. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
- 13. An amendment to the U.S Constitution, adopted in 1868, that makes all persons born or naturalized in the U.S - including former slaves - citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws
- 15. 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth
- 17. General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall
- 18. American administrator who did battlefield relief work during the Civil War and organized the American Red Cross
- 20. United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
- 24. United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two
- 26. The drafting of citizens for military service
- 28. A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
- 30. A federal agency set up help former slaves after the Civil War
- 34. The formal withdrawal of a state from the union
- 37. A creek in NW Maryland, flowing into the Potomac: scene of a Civil War battle, in which the Confederate forces of General Robert E. Lee were defeated