Post Civil War: Reconstruction Era

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Across
  1. 5. Main focus of southern economy before the Civil War
  2. 7. year 2nd Black Senator was elected
  3. 9. Assassinated President Lincoln
  4. 12. Year Reconstruction ended
  5. 14. Length of Civil War in years
  6. 15. How Southerners felt during Reconstruction
  7. 17. Northern general who destroyed much of Georgia to get Union victory
  8. 21. civilwargeneralwhobecamepresident
  9. 22. Main focus of northern economy before the Civil War
  10. 23. What right did Southerners particularly want to deny formerly enslaved people?
  11. 25. Nickname for Southerners who supported Reconstruction
  12. 27. first Black U.S. president
  13. 28. Supreme Court case that legalized segregation
  14. 29. What freed people were promised by the federal government to help them get a fresh start after slavery
  15. 30. Location where South surrendered to the North
Down
  1. 1. Was Reconstruction considered a success or failure?
  2. 2. Laws passed to prevent former slaves to travel or lively freely
  3. 3. Ensures equal protection under the law
  4. 4. Terrorist group that used violence to keep AfricanAmericans from voting
  5. 6. Attempt to rebuild South after the Civil War
  6. 7. Black men get the right to vote
  7. 8. "______ but_____"
  8. 10. Test requiring voters be able to read and explain in detail a section of the Constitution
  9. 11. Northerners who moved to the South for economic opportunity
  10. 12. Outlawed slavery in the United States
  11. 13. Southern general
  12. 16. Plantation land divided into small plots of land to rent to poor whites or freed peopl
  13. 18. First Black senator, elected in 1870
  14. 19. Law passed to make sure poor white voters would still be able to vote
  15. 20. Black regiment who fought at Fort Wagner
  16. 24. The legal separation of people of different races
  17. 26. Fee imposed on newly freed people to keep them from voting