reconstruction
Across
- 2. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
- 4. Helped blacks adjust to freedom
- 6. Supreme Court case that restricted Congress’s ability to enforce the KKK Act of 1871
- 8. placed in South until a new, better Government formed
- 9. right to vote
- 11. Unionist Republicans in the South who helped modernize and transform the region
- 14. Assassinated in Ford's Theater
- 15. Northerners who moved to South after Civil War
- 16. allowed everyone born in the US to be a citizen
- 17. President after Lincoln
- 18. Freed all slaves
- 20. government officials who embezzled millions of dollars of excise tax revenue from the U.S. Treasury
Down
- 1. to rebuild the South after the Civil War and readmit states to the Union
- 3. Killed Lincoln in Ford's Theater
- 5. secret society that liked to terrorize freedmen
- 7. Put newly freed slaves in debt and kept them in debt
- 10. Republicans, Believed South should be Punished
- 12. allowed all male suffrage
- 13. restricted African Americans rights
- 19. Plan, States could be readmitted after 10% population swore and oath