Across
- 2. property seized from the enemy; slaves were considered this prior to Emancipation Proclamation
- 3. to the Sea Union General William Sherman's campaign that sought to break southern morale; destroyed everything in its path from Chattanooga to Savannah (including Atlanta)
- 7. Klux Klan main group that implemented violence to prevent blacks from voting
- 9. York City Draft Riot carried out by poor, mostly Irish-Americans; attacked blacks and rich whites in response to Conscription Act of 1863; 117 killed
- 11. Amendment Prohibited any state from denying a citizen’s right to vote based upon “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
- 15. 54th Regiment example of how African-Americans flocked to Union Army after the Emancipation Proclamation
- 16. Codes various laws in South after Civil War that denied blacks their civil rights
- 17. Bureau Welfare agency for those made destitute in war (mainly freed slaves and homeless whites); increased African-American literacy
- 21. E. Lee Confederate general whose tactical abilities won numerous battles for South early in the war
- 22. Johnson took over presidency upon Lincoln's assassination
Down
- 1. terms used for northern Republicans who came south during Reconstruction
- 2. of 1877 officially ended Reconstruction; resulted in removal of Union troops from South
- 4. Revels 1st black senator; from Mississippi
- 5. term used for southern Republicans
- 6. Union victory in Pennsylvania that crippled the South's offensive capabilities
- 8. S. Grant Union general whose strategy of attrition won the war
- 10. Amendment among other things, it obligated states to respect rights of citizens by providing “equal protection of the laws” and “due process”
- 11. Amendment abolished slavery permanently
- 12. southern economic system in which landlord (white) provided seed and tools while poor farmer (black) gave landlord 50% of harvest (typically) as rent
- 13. Proclamation Lincoln’s declaration of 1862 that freed all slaves in those states that were in rebellion (but not those in the border states)
- 14. Bread Riot carried out by southern females for food as Confederate supplies ran low in the Civil War
- 18. Plan southern plan to fight Reconstruction by intimidating blacks and white Republicans
- 19. Sumter attack on this started the Civil War in 1861
- 20. lien paying for supplies with part of what you grow
