American History - Reconstruction Review - Gardner

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Across
  1. 2. racist group formed in the South - often used violent tactics to try to keep former slaves from being equal
  2. 4. name given to Northerners who moved South to try to profit off of the suffering after the Civil War
  3. 5. Lincoln said this was his main goal when the Civil War began
  4. 7. president who took over when Lincoln was assassinated - he was impeached but not removed from office
  5. 8. extreme members of the Republican party that didn't think Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction punished the South enough
  6. 11. their plan for Reconstruction would be very harsh on the Southerners to punish them for leaving the Union
  7. 12. this is what the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called because the equal rights of former slaves wasn't effectively addressed during Reconstruction after the Civil War
  8. 15. gave former slaves citizenship
Down
  1. 1. did not actually free any slaves in the South, but did give the war a higher moral purpose
  2. 3. his plan for Reconstruction centered around getting the Southern states back into the Union as quickly as possible
  3. 6. was formed by Congress to protect and help former slaves after the Civil War
  4. 9. name given to white Southerners who joined the Republican party and so were considered traitors to the South
  5. 10. gave former male slaves the right to vote
  6. 13. the period after the Civil War when the United States had to put itself back together
  7. 14. kept many former slaves poor because they couldn't make much money with this system