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7th Grade US History - Unit 4 - Facing a Crisis

Across
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
West ____ is 50 counties of western Virginia who broke off from Virginia due to the issue of slavery and secession.
Uncle Tom's ____ was a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.
Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
____ Percent Plan is Lincoln's plan for readmitting the Southern states into the Union
Former slaves
A ____ blockade was when the Union forces prevented the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy by blocking Atlantic and Gulf Coast.
Fort ____ was a Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
The Reconstruction ____ of 1867 ordered the army to ensure that the South complied with congressional mandates
the period from the end of the Civil War to 1877
Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
The ____ Proclamation was a Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery
____ slaves were factory workers in the North who worked long hours, received low wages, and worked in undesirable conditions.
The _____ States of America were the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
The Freedmen's _____ was an organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War.
The _____ Committee on Reconstruction was a Committee appointed by Congress to devise a way of reconstructing the South.
____ war is targeting civilians as well as the opposing military forces.
The ____ codes were Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves
A group pardon
Down
A town based around an industry
_____-Negro Law exempted any planter or overseer with more than 20 slaves from having to join the Confederate army
white Southerner who supported Reconstruction
A person who wanted to end slavery
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
The _____ Plan was the Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi River, and to take an army through heart of south.
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
A war of ____ is a war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses.
After the Civil War, southerners promoted a new vision for a self-sufficient southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial growth, and improved transportation.
The Underground _____ was a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada.
Draft; law to raise a national army
God's control over all events
_____-runners were people who sneaked goods through the Civil War blockade
Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
_____ to the Sea was Sherman's march to Savannah which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea.
a large bonus paid by most states in the North to join the state militias
Confederate and Union deserters
The ____ of Office Act made it illegal for the president to remove any appointee who had been approved by the Senate unless the Senate also approved the dismissal