Reconstruction

2. Banned many Confederate officials from holding state or federal office
6. Secret society that opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans.
7. A bill that Lincoln rejected that said a state had to ban slavery, and a majority of the adult males in that state had to swear the oath to rejoin the union
9. Allowed former Confederates, except those who help high ranks, to hold public office.
10. An act used to make reconstruction easier and create equal rights for African Americans
11. Provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
12. Leader of Radical Republicans from Pennsylvania
17. Made slavery illegal in the U.S.
18. Northern-born Republicans that moved to the south after the war
20. President after Abraham Lincoln
21. What Southern Democrats referred to white Southern Republicans as
22. Process of rebuilding the southern states without slavery
23. Gave African American men the right to vote
24. Guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places

1. First African American to serve a full term as a U.S. senator
3. Laws that required segregation
4. Leader of Radical Republicans from Massachusetts
5. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
8. Once ten percent of voters in a state swore the oath to the US and to ban slavery, the state could rejoin the Union
13. First African American in the U.S. Senate
14. Lincoln’s Assassin
15. An official pardon for illegal acts supporting the rebellion
16. Provided relief for all black and white poor people in the south
19. People who wanted the southern states to change more than they already had to rejoin the union