Civil War Reconstruction
Across
- 3. A series of local laws that would push black people into new forms of slavery
- 8. Name of the taxes used to prevent Black Americans from voting
- 11. Given to Black Americans with the 15th amendment
- 12. Forgiveness, also a name of one of the acts that helped confederates
- 13. Something finally granted to black American children
- 15. A test given to Black Americans that would "prove" they lacked education and couldn't vote
Down
- 1. A group of people dedicated to limiting the rights of blacks, trying to put them back in slavery.
- 2. A tenant farmer would work the land for land owner, each getting "half" of the earnings from the crop
- 4. Prisoners would be given to companies or land owners, put to work as the owner saw fit
- 5. The vice president who took Lincoln's place
- 6. What was ended by the 13th Amendment
- 7. The reconstruction plan that benefited Black Americans the most, and the South the least
- 9. Something that educated black people could finally run for
- 10. President who came after Johnson, and made a plan of his own
- 14. What the south was decided into