Reconstruction Era

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Across
  1. 5. three ____ were added to the Constitution to help Reconstruction and protect the rights of black people
  2. 7. some northerners moved to the South during the Reconstruction to try and make money off of the rebuilding were called ____
  3. 11. the 13th amendment ____ slavery
  4. 12. any state that was readmitted to the Union had to make slavery ____
  5. 13. the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War was called _____
  6. 15. White Southerners who joined the Republican Party and helped with the Reconstruction were called ____
  7. 16. many people wanted the South to be ____ for leaving the Union
  8. 17. laws that prevented black people from voting, owning land, going to school, and getting jobs
  9. 19. the president after Lincoln was ____
  10. 20. ____ disagreed with Johnson's leniency and wanted harsher laws for the South
Down
  1. 1. Reconstruction officially ended under the presidency of ____
  2. 2. the first state to be readmitted to the Union was ____
  3. 3. President Johnson granted many ___ to Confederate leaders
  4. 4. the last state to be readmitted to the Union was ____
  5. 6. a government agency called the Freedmen's ____ aimed to help black people after the Civil War
  6. 8. Lincoln was ____ at the end of the Civil War
  7. 9. the 15th amendment gave all male citizens the right to ___ regardless of race
  8. 10. the 14th amendment said that black people were ____ of the U.S.
  9. 14. ____ wanted to be lenient to the South
  10. 18. the purpose of Reconstruction was to help the South become part of the ____ again