Reconstruction Crossword (Emma and Ellie)

7. Allowed former Confederates, except those who had held high ranks, to hold public office
8. People who wanted the southern states to change much more than they already had before they could return to the Union
13. Leaders of Radical Republicans
16. Amendment that gave African American men throughout the United States the right to vote
17. Lincoln’s Vice President
18. An official pardon
20. Southerner who assassinated Lincoln
21. Process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states without slavery
22. Society that opposed civil rights for African Americans
23. Marked the beginning of a severe economic downturn that soon put an estimated 2 million people out of work
24. Laws that divided the South into five districts, with a U.S. military commander in control of each district

1. Amendment that made slavery illegal in U.S.
2. Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public
3. Laws that divided South into five districts with a military commander at the head of each one
4. Act that guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public place
5. Name that Southern Democrats gave white southern Republicans, also means “mean fellows”
6. Amendment that said guaranteed U.S. citizens protection of the laws, and that no states can take away your right to “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”
9. Act that provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
10. Northern-born Republicans that had moved south after the war
11. A special tax people had to pay before they could vote
12. A bill that said a state had to meet two conditions before it could rejoin the Union
14. Plan made by Lincoln that made it so once 10% of voters made pledges of loyalty to the U.S., they could form a new government
15. Place thats purpose was to provide relief for all poor people in the south
19. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans