Civil War

3. The start of the Civil War
4. Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
5. The President of the South
6. General Lee surrendered to Grant to end the war.
9. A closing off of an area to keep people or supplies from going in or out.
12. South was going to put up a fight. It was going to be a long war.
13. Take control of the Mississippi River and surround the South.
14. Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of 11 states that seceded from the Union.
15. North gained the Mississippi River.

1. Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War.
2. The period after the Civil War in which the Southern States were rebuilt and brought back from the Union.
7. The President of the North.
8. Bloodiest day of the war. Emancipation Proclamation.
10. Confederates lost hope of a quick victory and a northern invasion was stopped.
11. “March To Sea” helped quicken the end of the war. Atlanta was taken which led to Richmond fell.