Westward Expansion/Civil War/Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. southern whites who supported Reconstruction
  2. 4. amendment prohibits denying the right to vote based on race
  3. 7. town which springs up quickly
  4. 16. promised 160 acres of land
  5. 19. tax levied on exports or imports
  6. 21. Republicans who believed the south should be punished
  7. 23. laws establishing racial segregation in the south (after Reconstruction)
  8. 24. process of removal a federal official from office
  9. 25. reformers against slavery
  10. 26. Republican that won election in 1860
  11. 27. northern victory and major turning point
  12. 28. amendment which prohibited slavery (number only)
Down
  1. 1. term for working land and providing a portion of the yield to the land owner
  2. 3. written by southern states to restrict the rights of freedmen
  3. 5. northern war strategy to strangle the south
  4. 6. northerners who came to the south to exploit it during Reconstruction
  5. 8. leader of the Freedmen's Bureau
  6. 9. greater loyalty that is felt to a region or section
  7. 10. system in which freedmen could not leave until the debt was paid
  8. 11. passed to Americanize natives
  9. 12. process of rebuilding the south
  10. 13. low point in race relations
  11. 14. unsettled territory
  12. 15. land set aside for Native Americans by the government
  13. 17. public lands not belonging to anyone
  14. 18. slave who sued for his freedom
  15. 20. amendment providing citizenship (number only)
  16. 22. term to leave the union