Across
- 3. A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level
- 4. Racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level
- 7. A village were Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865, ending the war
- 8. A controversial ruling made by the supreme court in 1857
- 9. A United States federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans
- 10. An infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Lee on Major General George G.(Union). On the last day of Gettysburg
- 11. Amendment of the United States Constitution that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
- 12. A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, campaigning for election, U.S. Senate from Illinois
- 14. A speech by Lincoln, one of the best known in American History
- 16. A plan carried out by John Wilkes Booth, in order to revive the Confederate cause
- 19. An agency of the war department set up in the 1865 to assist freed slaves
Down
- 1. The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory
- 2. Major event leading to the American Civil War. Five bills proposed by Henry Clay
- 5. A presidential proclamation issued by Lincoln, directed to all areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive Branch
- 6. Amendment of the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
- 13. A bill proposed for the reconstruction of the south written by two radical republicans
- 14. Battle between the Union and the Confederate on July 1-3, 1863 (Union Won)
- 15. Preserved the balance between slave and free states in the senate and brought about a lull in the bitter debate in congress over slavery. Banned slavery north of the 36 30 line
- 17. A United States federal law, that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate
- 18. A legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned