Across
- 3. a period in American history following the American Civil War; it lasted from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
- 4. United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
- 6. A nickname for southern white who supported the republican party.
- 11. an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
- 13. The people that were against slavery.
- 14. A term used to describe people who supported the union.
- 15. The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
Down
- 1. An attempt to stop people from going in and out of a port.
- 2. The portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
- 5. an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
- 7. Gettysburg ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee's ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end.
- 8. the military land force of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, fighting against the United States forces in order to uphold the institution of slavery in the Southern states.
- 9. The state of being free of the control of some other person, country or entity.
- 10. It was fought during the American Civil War near Mechanicsville, Virginia, from May 31 to June 12, 1864 resulting in the disastrous defeat for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
- 12. the condition in which one human being was owned by another.