Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 4. System for freedmen to earn money, left them in debt
  2. 5. Racist group formed against African Americans and Republicans
  3. 7. Laws that limited freedom of former slaves
  4. 12. Everyone born in US has citizenship and protection
  5. 14. First African American Senator
  6. 15. President of US during Civil War
  7. 16. Created by Lincoln to help former slaves; food, clothing, schools
  8. 17. Tax freedmen had to pay to vote in the South
Down
  1. 1. Prevented freedmen from advancing politically, socially, and economically
  2. 2. Southerner who sided with the North during Reconstruction
  3. 3. Tested freedmen's literacy in order to vote in the South
  4. 6. Removed army troops from the South
  5. 8. Northerner who went to South to profit from Reconstruction
  6. 9. Citizens can't be stopped from voting based on race and/or color
  7. 10. Abolished slavery in all states
  8. 11. President after Lincoln died, Democrat
  9. 13. Congressmen who wanted to punish the South for the Civil War