Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude.
  2. 4. Rebuilding the South after the Civil War
  3. 6. Tried to keep African Americans and their white allies out of office and powerless.
  4. 10. Freedmen and poor whites who rented and farmed a plot of land.
  5. 11. Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen in the South.
Down
  1. 1. Legal separation of races.
  2. 2. All people born in the U.S. are citizens and have equal protection under the law.
  3. 3. Famed African American abolitionist.
  4. 5. What Congress tried to do to President Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction.
  5. 7. Required someone to be able to read and write before they could vote.
  6. 8. Required someone to pay a fee before they could vote.
  7. 9. African Americans who were freed from slavery after the Civil War.