Civil War/ Reconstruction Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. this amendment gave all men the right to vote.
  2. 6. a machine used to separate cotton fibers from seeds. led to an increase in slavery
  3. 7. laws passed in the south after the civil war to limit the rights of freed African Americans
  4. 8. the ____________ Proclamation was the event in which Lincoln announced all enslaved people in areas of rebellion were free.
  5. 11. a civil war battle in Pennsylvania which was a major turning point in the civil war. also the place Lincoln gave a famous address.
  6. 13. Northerners who went to the south following the civil war
  7. 15. this amendment granted freed African Americans citizenship, equal protection, & due process
  8. 17. a person fighting to end slavery
Down
  1. 1. the period following the civil war in which the south was being rebuilt and readmitted to the Union.
  2. 3. the first Republican President and the president during the Civil War.
  3. 4. the name of the southern states that seceded from the union.
  4. 5. a southern resistance group who harassed and threatened freed Blacks, and anti-slavery supporters.
  5. 9. to bring charges against a president.
  6. 10. this amendment abolished slavery.
  7. 12. a cycle of debt where freed African Americans were trapped by debt into a new form of slavery.
  8. 14. the last name of the Man who became president after Lincoln's assassination
  9. 16. the bloodiest one day battle in American History. Resulted in a Union victory.