This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Civil War & Reconstruction has 17 clues. Answers range from 6 to 24 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government.
Withdraw formally from a membership in a group or organization
the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.
military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.
first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery.
a secret network for helping slaves escape from the South to the North and to Canada in the years before the Civil War.
passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding
paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War.
the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or
a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release
applied to a Union Army outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
were a faction of Democrats in the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the
an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
an American abolitionist and political activist.
crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders.
an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts
is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854