Across
- 2. party supporting strong federal protection of freedmen’s rights (2 words)
- 3. 1862 act offering free land to settlers willing to farm it
- 5. White supremacist terrorist organization formed during Reconstruction
- 7. Union military plan to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River (2 words)
- 10. The belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast (2 words)
- 11. Constitutional amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
- 13. Agency providing aid, education, and protection to formerly enslaved people (2 words)
- 17. Period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating freedmen
- 18. Executive order freeing enslaved people in Confederate-held areas (2 words)
- 19. Southern laws restricting the rights of freed African Americans (2 words)
- 20. 1857 Supreme Court case ruling African Americans were not citizens (2 words)
- 22. Labor system trapping many freedmen in cycles of debt
- 23. Political party opposing expansion of slavery into western territories
- 24. Compromise of 1850 that admitted this state as a free state
- 25. Constitutional amendment guaranteeing voting rights regardless of race
Down
- 1. Election of 1877 allowed this president to win
- 4. Union campaign and March of total war through Georgia led by this General
- 5. 1854 act creating two territories and allowing popular sovereignty (2 words)
- 6. 1846 proposal to ban slavery in any territory gained from Mexico 2 words)
- 8. Government formed by seceded Southern states in 1861
- 9. this political party is known for its nativist platform (2 words)
- 12. Major 1863 battle turning the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union
- 14. Formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
- 15. 1850 act requiring citizens to help return escaped enslaved people (2 words)
- 16. Idea that voters in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery (2 words)
- 21. Lincoln’s lenient Reconstruction plan requiring limited loyalty oaths of ___%