Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 5. the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the union
  2. 8. a Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
  3. 9. a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence against African Americans
  4. 11. a formerly enslaved person
  5. 13. a temporary government
  6. 14. a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government
  7. 16. to record a person officially as eligible to vote
Down
  1. 1. to show, prove, or make clear
  2. 2. an official release from punishment for a crime
  3. 3. codes laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War
  4. 4. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction
  5. 6. to cancel
  6. 7. to end: to stop doing an action
  7. 10. June 19th, the date celebrated a the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
  8. 12. Required
  9. 15. to place a limit on a person or action