Unit 1.1 Modern American
Across
- 2. laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans
- 5. Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Charles Sumner who insisted that the confederates had committed crimes.
- 7. created federal guarantees of civil rights but was vetoed by President Johnson
- 10. an amendment that guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens
Down
- 1. an amendment forbidding any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous conditions.
- 3. the era in which the federal government struggled to return the 11 south states to the union and promote the rights of former slaves
- 4. charging a president with wrongdoing in the office
- 6. Abraham Lincoln's vice president who was forced into presidency after Lincoln's assassination
- 8. bureau of refugees, freedmen, and Abandoned Land
- 9. bill requiring a majority of state's prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union