Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. the United States of America; the Northern states during the Civil War
  2. 4. the Southern states during the Civil War
  3. 11. constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery
  4. 12. a series of laws passed in the South during Reconstruction to keep Freedmen from voting
  5. 13. the reorganization and rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
  6. 14. constitutional amendment that gave citizenship to all former slaves and established how a person becomes a naturalized citizen
  7. 15. an immigrant that becomes a citizen of a country
Down
  1. 1. series of laws that separated whites and blacks in society; segregation
  2. 3. the people rule; Kansas Nebraska Act used this so that settlers could determine if Kansas would be a slave or free state
  3. 5. to free from slavery
  4. 6. naval vessels made with iron sides instead of wood
  5. 7. constitutional amendment that gave all male citizens the right to vote
  6. 8. a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country
  7. 9. to withdrawal from the Union
  8. 10. name given by former Confederates to Southerners that supported Reconstruction
  9. 16. name given to Northerners who moved South after the Civil War to support Reconstruction\