Lesson 16 - Reconstruction Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. Laws enforcing segregation of blacks & whites in the South after the Civil War
  2. 5. This bureau established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help protect newly freed Black Americans
  3. 8. A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the South’s destruction during Reconstruction.
  4. 10. This amendment abolished slavery in the US
  5. 11. An economic system where former slave owners needed workers, so they divided their land into small plots & rented the plots to former slaves - led to a lifetime of poverty & debt
Down
  1. 1. The period of time after the Civil War in which Southern States were rebuilt & brought back into the Union
  2. 2. Laws passed in 1865 & 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights & freedoms of African Americans
  3. 3. This amendment granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States & guaranteeing all citizens equal protection under the law
  4. 6. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens
  5. 7. The amendment that prevents states from denying anyone the right to vote based on race, color, or former slave status
  6. 9. Forgiveness for past offenses.