Civil War & Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. Referred to as “The South”; which seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery and states’ rights
  2. 5. The concern and focus for regional needs and interests (the country was divided into north and south)
  3. 8. system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
  4. 9. withdraw formally from something such as a nation
  5. 10. military’s purpose to control who/what goes in or out of a place
Down
  1. 1. Referred to as “The North”; believe that African Americans were meant to have free will and fought to abolish slavery.
  2. 2. The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union
  3. 4. declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free.
  4. 6. Law Rule by military authority over civil authority during times of war and emergency
  5. 7. Act Action motivated by the need to fund the Civil War
  6. 8. Rights Theory that a state could choose to whether to obey or enforce federal laws