Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 1. created to aid newly emancipated slaves
  2. 5. Confederate general in command of the Confederate army
  3. 6. Constitutional amendment that extended civil rights to freedmen and prohibited states from taking away such rights
  4. 7. landmark battle in the Civil War that essentially ended in a draw but it gave Lincoln the opportunity to declare emancipation
  5. 8. Union General in command of the Union army from 1861-1862
  6. 11. bloodiest battle of the Civil War which took place in July of 1863
  7. 12. Constitutional amendment that ended slavery
  8. 13. Northern Democrats tho obstructed the war effort by attacking Lincoln, the draft, and emancipation
Down
  1. 2. declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free
  2. 3. introduced by President Lincoln, it proposed that a state be readmitted to the Union once 10% of its voters had pledged loyalty to the United States
  3. 4. first major battle of the war that dispelled northern illusions of a swift victory
  4. 9. passed in 1866 over Andrew Johnson's veto, the bill aimed to counteract black codes by conferring citizenship to African Americans
  5. 10. passed by Congress following a wave of KKK violence, banned clan membership