Across
- 4. Sovereignty, a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
- 6. Railroad, A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or safe areas in free states.
- 8. Tax, a tax on earnings
- 10. Northerner who moved to the South after the civil war
- 11. Courthouse, town near Appomattox Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865
- 14. a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for part of the crop they raise.
- 15. Barton, founded the Red Cross
- 18. Amendment, Abolished slavery and involuntary solitude.
- 19. Sumter, Fort seized by confederate soldiers.
- 20. Bureau, A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war.
Down
- 1. Address, a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 2. Amendment, All persons born or naturalized in the United States - including former slaves - citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws
- 3. Wilkes Booth, Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- 5. Proclamation, An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves in all regions behind confederate lines.
- 7. a white Southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war
- 9. The period of rebuilding that followed the civil war, which the defeated confederate were readmitted to the union.
- 12. Scott, Slave whose owner took him from slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois.
- 13. Formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the union.
- 16. amendment, Prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or because they have previously been slaves
- 17. The formal withdrawal of a state from the union.