Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 6. A violent uprising against an authority or government.
  2. 10. Bureau A government agency created to provide health, employment, and educational services to freedpeople and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.
  3. 12. Codes Laws created after the Civil War to limit the rights and privileges of newly freed slaves.
  4. 14. The act of sealing off a key port area to prevent goods from entering and leaving
  5. 16. A fee charged for voting in an effort to deny black Americans the right to vote.
  6. 17. Farming A farming arrangement in which a farmer rents a plot of land and house from a landowner.
  7. 20. Johnson This person became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  8. 21. Having intense pride in one's country
  9. 22. T. Sherman This Union General led a march to Savannah.
  10. 23. To take or seize with authority
  11. 24. Amendment This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States.
  12. 25. To set free
  13. 26. A person who wants to END slavery.
  14. 29. Amendment This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. A person who supports Great Britain and wants to resolve the differences peacefully.
  2. 2. Republicans A group of lawmakers who actively supported the rights and liberties of Black people during Reconstruction.
  3. 3. The state of living without a settled home or permanent job.
  4. 4. This was a terrorist/hate group that used violence to discourage African Americans from voting.
  5. 5. This means before the civil war
  6. 7. To bring goods or services into a country from abroad for sale or trade.
  7. 8. A form of government in which a single ruler usually a king or queen, hold supreme power.
  8. 9. A type of tenant farming in which the tenant receives a share of the crop from the landowner as payment for their labor.
  9. 11. To withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  10. 13. The ability to get goods or services before paying for them, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.
  11. 15. A person who supported the fight for the 13 colonies independence.
  12. 18. The forced journey taken by Native Americans after the passage of the Indian Removal Act
  13. 19. To accuse a public official of wrongdoing or misconduct.
  14. 27. To put to death (as by hanging) by mob action.
  15. 28. A fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing.