Reconstruction Era Puzzle
Across
- 7. officially ended slavery in the US
- 10. the fear and resentment of immigrants
- 12. fill in the blank: The 14th Amendment included the very important rule that every citizen must have equal ______ under the law
- 13. white supremacists who used fear and violence against black voters and force people out of government jobs
- 14. fill in the blank: However the 13th Amendment included a major exception, it says slavery is illegal except as ________ for a crime
Down
- 1. assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- 2. who worked in congress to pass the three Amendments
- 3. 10% of the people in a Southern seceded State voted to reenter the Union and accepted Emancipation, they could come back to the US
- 4. anyone born in the United States is a US citizen
- 5. became president after Lincoln's assassination
- 6. 50% of the eligible voting population would have to take a oath of loyalty to the Union
- 8. gave Black men the right to vote
- 9. Northerner who moved to the South during reconstruction
- 11. white southerners who supported the Reconstruction plans