Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 5. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions, liberation.
  2. 8. a farmer who, in an exchange for labor, is provided with seed, tools, living quarters and food and receives a share of the profits from the sale of crops.
  3. 9. Something that is required.
  4. 13. A formerly enslaved person, now free.
  5. 15. voters hold sovereign power through elected representation.
  6. 16. constitutional principle that recognizes people and fundamental rights.
  7. 17. to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to.
  8. 19. The effort after the Civil war, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
  9. 20. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
  10. 25. rule by the people.
  11. 26. Military government, involving suspension of ordinary law
  12. 29. A temporary government.
  13. 30. a local law or piece of legislation.
Down
  1. 1. Constitutional laws that prohibits slavery.
  2. 2. A Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.
  3. 3. Constitutional law that guarantees African Americans the right to vote.
  4. 4. The official release from punishment of a crime.
  5. 6. free from outside control, self-governing.
  6. 7. A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used terror and violence against African Americans.
  7. 9. the forced enrollment of people into military service.
  8. 10. of central importance.
  9. 11. a person who supported the Union cause during the war.
  10. 12. Means to cancel
  11. 14. a focus on the interests of one’s region
  12. 18. the system by which goods and services are produced, sold and bought in a country or region.
  13. 21. A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction Government.
  14. 22. a member of a volunteer committee organized to punish criminals.
  15. 23. constitutional law that guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law to people who have been enslaved.
  16. 24. the position that the federal government should not interfere with the state’s exercising their constitutional powers.
  17. 27. Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern Governments after the Civil War.
  18. 28. using Naval vessels to prevent shipment of food and supplies into or out of ports.