Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 3. The ____ Amendment granted citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law.
  2. 6. Gettysburg ___Famous speech delivered by Lincoln in November 1863 dedicating a cemetery.
  3. 10. Unfair reading and interpretation exams used to deny voting rights to African Americans.
  4. 13. Fee required by Southern states before a citizen could cast a ballot.
  5. 16. Abraham _______, the President who fought to preserve the Union.
  6. 19. Executive order issued by Lincoln that legally freed enslaved persons in the states in rebellion.
  7. 20. ____ Bureau: Government agency created during Reconstruction to build schools and provide aid to formerly enslaved people.
  8. 21. Secret white supremacist terrorist group that used violence to deny civil rights to African Americans.
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  1. 1. The ____ Amendment legally abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.
  2. 2. The Union's strategic naval blockade designed to strangle the Southern economy was called the ________ Plan.
  3. 4. The ____ Amendment protected voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous servitude.
  4. 5. General who commanded all Union armies at the end of the war and accepted the Confederate surrender.
  5. 7. A system where a worker farms a plot of land in exchange for a share of the crop, often leading to a cycle of debt.
  6. 8. The geographic region that went to war to try and win its independence and protect slavery.
  7. 9. Codes Laws passed immediately after the war by Southern states to restrict freedmen's daily lives and force them into low-wage labor.
  8. 11. Radical __________, the faction of Northern politicians who demanded equal rights for freedmen and punishment for the South.
  9. 12. The Virginia town where the official Confederate surrender took place: __________ Court House.
  10. 14. State and local laws designed to enforce racial segregation and deny civil rights in the South.
  11. 15. Save the ____; Northern war goal that Lincoln prioritized even above immediately abolishing slavery.
  12. 17. General who surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, effectively ending the war.
  13. 18. The phrase "Four _____ and seven years ago..." opens Lincoln's most famous speech.