Reconstruction
Across
- 2. What the 14th amendment granted to all people born in the US
- 5. African American slaves that were freed after the Civil War
- 8. A powerful group in Congress that passed the Reconstruction Acts
- 11. The name of Lincoln's reconstruction plan
- 12. Laws passed in the South that attempted to restrict the rights of freedmen
Down
- 1. First African American to be elected in office
- 3. First president to be assassinated
- 4. Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater
- 6. Rebuilding after the Civil War
- 7. A cult that was formed to commit violent acts against freedmen
- 9. Voting Rights
- 10. Freedmen that borrowed land from land owners in exchange for a portion of their harvest