Unit 1: Civil War and Reconstruction

Word Bank
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Abolitionists, Anaconda Plan, Black Codes, Border states, Carpetbaggers, Cash crop, Confederacy, Debt peonage, Emancipation Proclamation, Freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Literacy Test, Missouri Compromise, Poll tax, Popular sovereignty, Reconstruction, Scalawags, Secession, Sectionalism, Union, sharecropping, “Separate but equal”

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Across

5. Former slaves that were freed following the 13th Amendment

6. Freedmen lost freedom to move away because of debts to landlord or business owner (2 Words)

7. This agreement between North & south made Maine a free State, Missouri a slave state, and established a line of latitude to determine the future spread of slavery. (2 Words)

8. the feeling of loyalty people develop towards their own region as it develops in contrast to another

9. A person who takes action to end slavery

10. Law added to the Constituion which Abolished slavery (2 Words)

11. Law added to the Constitution which made African American citizens under the Constitution. (2 Words)

15. Time period following the Civil War where the south had to be rebuilt economically and politically

18. Slave states that did not secede from the Union. (2 Words)

19. Laws that segregated public facilities in the south until the 1960’s (3 Words)

20. Law added to the Constitution which gave African American Men Suffrage (the right to vote) (2 Words)

21. Required freedmen to prove they could read in order to vote (2 Words)

23. Freedmen gives part of their crop to the landlord in exchange for use of tools and land

24. To withdraw from a union or group

25. Refers to the Southern states that seceded from the union during the Civil War “The Confederate States of America”

26. Racist group who terrorized the Freedmen during reconstruction

Down

1. Concept established by Plessy v. Ferguson which stated that it was acceptable to segregate the races. (3 Words)

2. Freed slaves in states in rebellion, not in border states; turned the war into a moral fight to end slavery (2 Words)

3. Refers to the north or the USA during the Civil War

4. A citizen’s right to vote on whether to allow slavery or not (2 Words)

5. Organization formed by the Republicans to provide aid to newly freed slaves. (2 Words)

12. a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. (2 Words)

13. A northerner who moved south to aid the freedmen after the Civil War

14. Nickname for a southerner who supported reconstruction

16. The Union’s military plan to strangle the South’s economy with a naval blockade. (2 Words)

17. Laws that sought to limit the civil rights of freedmen, such us the right to vote (2 Words)

22. Required freedmen to pay a tax in order to vote (2 Words)

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