Mohamed's Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

2. Laws that were passed across the South in response to the Civil Rights Act Of 1866, restricting blacks’ freedoms.
4. first African American elected to the House of Representatives and the second to serve in the United States Congress during Reconstruction.
9. Former governor and senator from Tennessee who became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
12. a government agency that operated during the period of Reconstruction. It was officially titled the Bureau of Refugees
14. A nickname for northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
15. A well-known stage actor and fanatic supporter of the South who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865

1. Secretary of war under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
3. American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States
5. Union general and Civil War hero who went on to defeat Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.
6. first black senator to serve a full term in the United States Congress.
7. amendment ratified in 1870, that gave all American men the right to vote, regardless of race or wealth.
8. major African-American abolitionist, reformer, and writer who escaped slavery himself
10. The period from 1867–1877 when Radical Republicans controlled the House of Representatives and the Senate
11. amendment, drafted by Radical Republicans in 1866 and ratified in 1868, that ensured that the liberties guaranteed to blacks in the Civil Rights Act Of 1866 could not be taken away.
13. landowners leased individual plots of land on plantations to white and black Sharecroppers