Civil war and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 1. This granted citizenship to all Americans regardless of race.
  2. 3. This gave all American men the right to vote, regardless of race or wealth.
  3. 4. North's plan to blockade the Southern ports and dividing the South by taking control of the Mississippi.
  4. 7. Northerners who moved to the South to provide governmental assistance or for their own profit; some came because the South represented the land of opportunity.
  5. 12. Northern Republicans who contested Lincoln’s treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments.
  6. 14. Southerners who supported Northern and Republican viewpoints during Reconstruction.
  7. 15. The time period after the Civil War during which the South rejoined the Union.
  8. 17. A bill that stated that southern states could reenter the Union after 50% of their voters pledged allegiance to the US.
Down
  1. 2. This stated that slaves in rebel states would be set free on 1 January 1863.
  2. 5. Provided for the immediate needs of those who had been freed from slavery.
  3. 6. A racist secret society which used violence and intimidation to restrict the progress made by African-Americans.
  4. 8. the type of farming system set up on plantations after slaves were freed to benefit them and the owners.
  5. 9. A set of legislations which balanced concessions to Black Southerners with restrictions and limitations.
  6. 10. President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
  7. 11. He took over the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination.
  8. 13. This abolished slavery in the United States.
  9. 16. Reconstruction plan by Lincoln stating that a state would be readmitted when 10% of the voting population had taken an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.