Unit 6 Vocabuluary Assignment - Crossword Puzzle

3. A Northerner who moved to the South after the war, often seen as exploiting the region.
5. The period after the Civil War when the Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
6. Abolished slavery, gave African-Americans citizenship, and gave African American men the right to vote.
8. The Northern states during the Civil War that remained loyal to the U.S. government.
9. A pardon for offenses, such as President Andrew Johnson’s offer of amnesty to many former Confederates
10. A system where freedmen rented land from landowners and paid with a portion of their crops, often trapping them in poverty.
11. Government agency that helped formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom by providing food, education, and medical care.
15. The 1863 declaration by President Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate states.
16. The act of formally withdrawing from an organization or alliance, such as the Southern states leaving the Union.
17. The system of forced labor where people were considered property.
18. Laws passed in the South to limit the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War.

1. A short speech by Lincoln honoring fallen soldiers and emphasizing national unity.
2. The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
4. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
7. The group of Southern states that seceded and formed their own government.
12. The belief that individual states have the right to govern themselves, often used to justify secession.
13. Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
14. The Union’s military strategy to defeat the Confederacy by blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River to “squeeze” the South, like an anaconda snake.