A Nation Divided Crossword Puzzle

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A decision made by the Supreme Court ruling that African Americans weren�t U.S. Citizens.

The battle where all of the Confederacy surrendered to the Union; officially ending the Civil War for the most part.

People after the Civil War who took advantage of reconstruction or surroundings for their own personal/economic gain.

A political ideology stating that the government would be �ruled� by the people. The choices would be made by the people in the interest of the people.

The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

P.G.T. Beauregard, A.P. Hill, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.

The party that Lincoln was apart of. This party opposed slavery and is still alive today.

The very first impeachment in U.S. history. This president was a previous slave owner. He was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office.

A series of debates between two famous candidates. These debates helped catapult one of the candidates to fame.

A group of politicians that wanted to eradicate slavery altogether and wanted equal rights. They aligned themselves with a progressive stance.

A policy stating that slaves had to be sent back to the previous owner regardless of location.

A bill that allowed two states to decide whether to allow slavery or not.

A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposing the cruelty of slavery.

Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Banks, William T. Sherman, and George B. McClellan.

An organized (yet unsuccessful) attack on Harpers Ferry. This attack was led by a famous abolitionist.

The president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The period after the Civil War stitching back together the nation.

A person (usually a farmer) who rented land only to try to pay the costs back. These people were an essential part of the sharecropping system.

An internal conflict that erupted in a midwestern state because of slavery and the recent pieces of legislature passed.

A Union regiment made up of volunteers, a majority of them black, originated in Massachusetts.

An announcement made by President Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam. This declared all slaves would be free. However, it only applied to slaves in the Confederacy.

The act of the Southern states withdrawing from the Union.

A government agency that helped to provide aid, healthcare, and schooling to African Americans.

A system in which and landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer for them to live on. These were agreements bound together by contract that farmers usually couldn�t break out of. This system resembled slavery.

A Union military strategy surrounding/blocking the Confederacy in a snake-like outline.

These changes banished slavery nationwide, protected birthrights/U.S. Citizenship, and protected voting rights for African Americans.

A series of regulations passed after the Civil War. These restrictions unlawfully targeted African Americans� basic freedoms.

A rebel group formed by a previous confederate after the Civil War. They spread their message of white supremacy through terror and hate. They usually dress up in white attire and are still around today.

Five bills that were passed to try to re-stabilize the North and South by strengthening a law an adding a free state among other things.

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