Chapter 17 Reconstruction
Across
- 3. president who tried to block Congressional Reconstruction
- 4. to show, prove, or make clear
- 8. the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
- 9. governor who set up free public schools in Texas
- 14. the effort after the Civil War to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back to the Union
- 15. to end; to stop doing an action
- 17. to cancel
- 18. controlled 5th military district that included Texas
- 20. a Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
Down
- 1. to record a person officially as eligible to vote
- 2. a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government
- 5. vowed to restore Texas to the days before Radical Republicans
- 6. government a temporary government
- 7. to place a limit on a person or action
- 10. laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War
- 11. a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans
- 12. an official release from punishment for a crime
- 13. a formerly enslaved person
- 16. required
- 19. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction