Civil War Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| abolitionist | A person who believed slavery was wrong and worked to end it |
| Booth | President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes ____ on April 14, 1865. |
| Bureau | The Freedmen’s ____ was set up by Congress to help all who were homeless and without jobs because of the war. |
| carpetbagger | A Northerner who went to the South after the war to help rebuild it |
| fifteenth | The ____ amendment gave former slaves the right to vote. |
| fourteenth | The ____ amendment made former slaves citizens. |
| Gettysburg | The turning point of the Civil War was the 1863 Battle of ____ in Pennsylvania. |
| leaders | At the end of the Civil War, ____ of both the North and South encouraged forgiveness. |
| military | The main advantage of the South during the Civil War was its many ____ leaders. |
| money | Many carpetbaggers and scalawags were dishonest and had no concern for the South, wanting only to make ____ for themselves. |
| Monitor | The first battle of ironclad ships took place during the Civil War between the ____ of the North and the Merrimac of the South. |
| North | The ____ had many advantages during the Civil War: more people, more money, more railroads, and more factories. |
| Radicals | Northern leaders of Congress who believed the South should be punished for the Civil War |
| scalawag | A Southerner who supported the Radicals in Congress |
| Scott | The Dred ____ Decision by the Supreme Court angered the North and delighted the South. |
| secede | South Carolina, the first state to ____ from the Union, did so three months before President Lincoln took the oath of office. |
| Sumter | The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort ____ in South Carolina. |
| thirteenth | The ____ amendment put an end to slavery. |
| Union | Lincoln’s main goal was to save the ____. |
| voting | Members of the Ku Klux Klan used violence to keep blacks, scalawags, and carpetbaggers from ____ and holding office. |
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