Across
- 2. Policy that gave 50 acres of land out west to settlers for free
- 6. chief editor of the abolitionist paper, The Liberator
- 8. Gave black men the right to vote
- 9. Drew a line dividing free and enslaved states in the West
- 12. When the Union placed the military in the South to oversee Reconstruction
- 13. When cotton plantations controlled American society and economics
- 14. Battle that was the turning point of the war
- 16. disputed military basis that leads to the first conflict of the Civil War
- 17. Leader of the Underground Railroad
- 21. Made slavery illegal for the entire United States
- 24. leading general of the Confederacy
- 25. Policy to limit immigration from a particular country
- 26. Gave new states the right to determine their own slavery laws
Down
- 1. Activist movement that became the women's rights movement
- 3. when Southern states left the Union following the Election of 1860
- 4. End of the Civil War
- 5. religious abolitionist leading the Raid on Harpers Ferry and Bleeding Kansas
- 7. Leading Union general
- 10. Loyalty to a region than the country as a whole
- 11. Invention that led to an increase in slavery
- 15. Suffragist who supported racial and gender equality
- 18. freed enslaved people in the South
- 19. group of people who stepped up while men were at war
- 20. President of the Confederacy
- 21. Provided citizenship to former enslaved people
- 22. Gave America the southwest territory
- 23. former enslaved man who was a prominent abolitionist