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Across
  1. 2. people who live in the Sea Islands of the Low Country with close roots to their African heritage
  2. 5. an official pardon for people who had committed political offences. These were granted by the president to white southerners after the Civil War.
  3. 6. He assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  4. 8. During Reconstruction this famous formerly enslaved orator became the highest-ranking Black official of his time and advocated for full civil rights for Black people as well as for women
  5. 10. a law that said you could only vote if your grandfather could vote before the Civil War
  6. 13. One of the first Freedman's Schools, located on St. Helena Island and continued to serve as a Center for Civil Rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. drafted his "I Have A Dream" speech here.
  7. 14. Union troops took over here early in the Civil War, November, 1861 and freed all of the enslaved people in this area.
  8. 15. Supreme Court case which ruled that schools could be "separate but equal"
Down
  1. 1. these Republicans took control of Congress during Johnson's presidency
  2. 2. former Union general who was elected president in 1868
  3. 3. This experiment tried to figure out how to help the formerly enslaved people here in Beaufort, SC
  4. 4. the use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt. Former enslavers kept the formerly enslaved in bondage this way even after the 13th Amendment.
  5. 7. laws that forced segregation
  6. 9. tests designed to stop illiterate Black Americans from being able to vote.
  7. 11. Born enslaved in Beaufort, he stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War and went on to become a Captain in the Union Navy and later a member of Congress
  8. 12. the process of charging a public official with a crime