Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. Former Union general who became the 18th president
  2. 7. the person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  3. 9. A "supermajority," or the vote needed in the Senate to convict in an impeachment trial
  4. 10. An organization that helped freed African Americans get education was the Freedmen's ______.
  5. 11. The right to vote
  6. 14. laws passed to keep freedmen on plantations
  7. 16. Constitutional amendment defining citizenship and guaranteeing equal protection under the laws
  8. 17. Congress's counter-proposal plan for Reconstruction that required a majority of voters to take a loyalty oath
  9. 18. the first African American to serve as a U.S. House member
  10. 19. southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction
  11. 20. Radical Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
  12. 23. Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were _____ Republicans who wanted to dramatically change the South
  13. 24. 17th president of the United States
Down
  1. 1. Former Confederate general who supported Congressional Reconstruction
  2. 2. "No one may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without ____ _______ of law." - 14th Amendment
  3. 4. To formally accept or give consent to an amendment
  4. 5. a Southern social club turned white supremacist domestic terror organization
  5. 6. Andrew Johnson was _______ for violating the Tenure of Office Act
  6. 8. the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator
  7. 12. a term for formerly enslaved African Americans
  8. 13. northerners who moved south to make money helping rebuild the south
  9. 15. Lincoln used this to kill Congress's Reconstruction bill
  10. 19. Union general who issued Special Field Order 15
  11. 21. Under the First Reconstruction Act, Congress divided the South into 5 military _____.
  12. 22. Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction