Across
- 2. law to help enslavers recapture people escaping slavery
- 6. Organized push to make changes in order to improve society
- 10. Religious movement in the early 19th century that led to many reform movements
- 12. to withdraw, such as to withdraw from the nation
- 16. One of the first leaders calling for women’s rights and suffrage
- 18. federal government of the United States - the states in the North that stayed part of the U.S.
- 19. amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States (except as a punishment)
- 20. the process the U.S. government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War
- 22. The South Carolina fort where the war began
Down
- 1. A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
- 3. The right to vote
- 4. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating that citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
- 5. the Confederate States of America - the southern states that seceded from the Union and formed their own country
- 7. an order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions in rebellion against the Union
- 8. Escaped from slavery and became a public speaker on abolition
- 9. The enslaved man who went to court to sue for his freedom
- 11. Movement to end slavery
- 13. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that made all persons born or naturalized in the United States -- including former slaves -- citizens of the country
- 14. Education reform leader who pushed for better public education
- 15. several years of violence in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces
- 17. Escaped from slavery and became one of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad
- 21. major turning point battle in 1863 - the beginning of the end for the Confederacy