Reconstruction Crossword

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  1. 6. 13th-abolished slavery 14th-granted citienzenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the Us
  2. 7. A war between citizens of the same country, American Civil War was a war between Americans over state rights and lasted 4 years.
  3. 8. The Action of formally withdrawing from a federation
  4. 9. Enslaved african american, unsucssesuflly sued for his freedom, the case went to the supreme court.
  5. 11. To be set free. Lincolns emancipation proclamation set free all slaves in the conferacy only
  6. 13. Numerous laws enacrd in the former Confederate states after the Civil War which limited the rights and liverties of African Americans.
  7. 14. Secret society that used violence against freedman and their white supporters, they practiced violence to intimidage newly freed aftican-americans
  8. 15. Abolitonist, led attacks in kansas during "bleeding kansas", planned to arm slaves in a revolt
  9. 16. The owner of a plot of land lets someone work the land in exchange for ½ or more of the crop, it was used to keep newly freed slaves in a cycle of poverty.
  10. 17. The period of US history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal gov't set the conditons
  11. 18. Required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states must cooperate.
  12. 19. -prohibited the denial of the vote because of race, color, or previous servitude
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  1. 1. Referred to as the confederacy, name of the unrecognized country temporarily create by the southern states which seceded from the untion
  2. 2. The divison of power between state and federal (or national) govt. The Civil War started over a fight over states rights. The Southern states believed they had the right to decid to leep slavery and not pay tariffs.
  3. 3. This law allowed those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery by utilizing popular sovereignty.
  4. 4. Slave states that stayed with the union during the civil war.
  5. 5. An Anti-slavery novel by Harritet Beecher Stowe. It helped spread the abolitionist movement throughout the north.
  6. 10. California wanted to join the union as a free state which cased conflict between the North and the South.
  7. 12. 16th president, president during to Civil War