Debate Over Reconstruction
Across
- 1. people who worked and lived on land often owned by white landowners that caused generations of poverty
- 3. where Lincoln spoke about the ending of war and how he wanted to reconcile the South and didn't want to punish them for treason
- 5. a bill that was proposed as another plan instead of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction
- 6. The act of granting a pardon to a large group of people
- 7. First African American person to be in the US Senate and spoke up for the rights of African Americans
- 8. the president's indirect veto of a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill
Down
- 2. A group of people in the South who mainly wanted the South to be republicans and also wanted suffrage for African American people
- 4. what percent of a Confederate states voters had to agree to take the oath
- 6. Lincoln's vice president who took office after Lincoln died