Across
- 2. Confederate prison camp known for harsh conditions and high death rates
- 4. set of laws that attempted to balance free and slave states and ease tensions
- 6. belief that states can declare federal laws unconstitutional and ignore them
- 8. Plan to reunite the nation quickly with lenient terms
- 9. Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories
- 15. Group that used violence to oppose rights for African-Americans/Blacks
- 16. Georgia’s statement supporting the Compromise of 1850 while warning against limiting slavery further
- 18. agency that helped formerly enslaved people with education and jobs
- 22. Farming system where farmers rented land and paid with cash or crops
- 23. system where farmers worked land for a share of the crops
- 24. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection under the law
- 25. idea that states have the power to make their own decisions over the federal government
- 27. Plan that caused conflict with Congress
Down
- 1. Union effort to capture Atlanta and weaken the Confederacy
- 3. Campaign destroying resources from Atlanta to Savannah
- 5. Proclamation order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states
- 7. Northern strategy to block Southern ports and cut off supplies
- 10. major Civil War battle in Georgia with a Confederate victory
- 11. conflict between the North and South from 1861 to 1865
- 12. Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
- 13. Amendment giving African-American men the right to vote
- 14. period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
- 17. election where Lincoln won, leading Southern states to begin seceding
- 19. 16th U.S. president who led the Union during the Civil War
- 20. act of Southern states leaving the Union
- 21. Reconstruction Plan plan placing the South under military control with stronger protections for freedmen
- 26. system where people were treated as property and forced to work without pay