Reconstruction Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. President after Lincoln, nicknamed the "Veto President"
  2. 6. Act that gave former Confederates the right to vote again
  3. 10. Type of districts organized by Congress in the South in 1867
  4. 12. One who rented a plot of land for farming and often paid for it by giving owners a portion of what they raised
  5. 14. Term for a white southerner who collaborated with the North during the Civil War, usually for profit
  6. 16. The first southern state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War
  7. 19. Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money off of the rebuilding
  8. 20. Emancipation
  9. 21. A secret society created to drive African Americans out of political life as voters and officeholders (abbr.)
  10. 23. Term for African Americans leaving the South after segregation
  11. 25. Acts designed to combat violence against African Americans
  12. 28. Gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race
  13. 29. Another term for the United States
  14. 30. Laws that segregated the South, named for a black character in an 1800s entertainment act
  15. 31. President who delivered the Emancipation Proclamation
Down
  1. 1. By the 1880s, only about half of all black children in the South went here
  2. 2. Abolished slavery in the United States
  3. 3. Granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed all citizens equal protection under the law
  4. 4. Increased dramatically to help pay for reconstruction of southern states
  5. 7. Migrants who left the South for Kansas in 1879
  6. 8. To charge an office holder with misconduct
  7. 9. Era following the Civil War (1865-1877)
  8. 11. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was Constitutional as long as things were separate but also _____
  9. 13. President who ended Reconstruction, leading many southern states to reverse some equality laws
  10. 15. Elected president in 1868 thanks to about 500,000 black votes
  11. 16. Military district with Alabama and Georgia
  12. 17. Laws passed by state governments to limit the freedoms and rights of black people
  13. 18. The last southern state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War
  14. 22. Presidential candidate who won more popular votes and more electoral votes than his opponent but lost the presidency
  15. 24. Defined by Frederick Douglass as "free from the individual master but a slave to society"
  16. 26. The ____ of Office Act
  17. 27. Assassinated President Lincoln