Across
- 1. the closing of an area to keep people or supplies from moving in or out
- 3. to charge a government official with wrongdoing
- 4. laws passed by Southern states after Reconstruction that established segregation
- 7. announcement made by President Lincoln that led to the end of slavery in Confederate States
- 9. a person who is not in the armed forces
- 10. laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limited the rights of newly-freed African-Americans
- 11. the period after the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to bring Southern states back into the Union
- 13. officially established African-Americans as citizens with the same rights as whites
- 14. the speech made by President Lincoln at the site of this battle
- 17. a war in which both sides strike against each other's soldiers, civilians, and economy
- 18. the process of selection of men for compulsory military service
Down
- 2. the war between the Union and the Confederacy
- 5. a system in which farmers rented land from the owner and paid with a share of their crops
- 6. made it illegal to withhold voting rights "on account of race or color"
- 8. it abolished slavery
- 12. a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves in the South
- 15. the separation of people, usually based on race or religion
- 16. the Union’s 3-step plan for defeating the Confederacy in the Civil War