Unit 7: The Civil War & Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. _______________ Compromise, determined that Missouri would come in as a slave state, Maine as a free state & maintain the balance
  2. 5. Black _____________ mandated how Black people could live in the South; if they were broken, then the person was incarcerated
  3. 7. Public, mob murder of people, particularly Black Americans in the South
  4. 8. Name of the states who seceded from the Union
  5. 9. What President Andrew Johnson declared himself ("A self-proclaimed _____")
  6. 10. The word introduced by the 15th Amendment which stated who had the ability to vote
  7. 12. ______________ Kansas: Where people fought one another to try and decide whether the state would be slave/free
  8. 13. Lincoln's assassin who shouted, "And thus to tyrants!" after shooting him in the head, jumping over the railing, and breaking his leg
  9. 15. _____________ Slave Act, legally forced people in the North to participate in slavery by returning escaped slaves
  10. 16. ____________ Proclamation, freed the slaves in hostile, Confederate territory
  11. 17. Not owning land but farming it then owing the land owner money - led to debt and imprisonment
  12. 20. The Amendment which gave the laws of citizenship to Black Americans and anyone else born in the US
  13. 21. The style of Reconstruction where the military went into the Southern states and controlled them as zones
Down
  1. 1. The color of the Union army uniforms
  2. 2. The last name of the President of the United States during the Civil War
  3. 4. The main issue that the Civil War was fought over
  4. 6. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery but left this loophole
  5. 9. The time period after the Civil War when the government tried to reconnect the North and South
  6. 11. What freed people wanted more than anything
  7. 14. Terror group that emerged during Reconstruction
  8. 18. The time period at the end of Reconstruction when southern states returned to Southern leadership
  9. 19. What escaped slaves were called before they were legally able to join the Union Army