Reconstruction Era

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Across
  1. 3. Guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the US
  2. 5. Helps former slaves with schools, getting jobs, and housing
  3. 7. Time period following the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South
  4. 12. Members of Congress who wanted to punish the South And protect the rights of freed Slaves after Civil War
  5. 13. Many former slaves work plantations, similar to slavery
  6. 14. Term for former Confederate soldiers who terrorize Black people
Down
  1. 1. Guaranteed all free men the right to vote
  2. 2. Laws that enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction
  3. 4. Northerners who move south to make money
  4. 6. Last name of U.S. President who led the early Reconstruction after the Civil War
  5. 8. Southerner who supports the Union
  6. 9. Last name of U.S. President who was assassinated at the start of Reconstruction
  7. 10. Officially made slavery illegal across the US
  8. 11. Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans