Reconstruction Plan
Across
- 1. Laws passed in the South to restrict freedoms of African Americans
- 6. Oath that Southern states had to take to rejoin the Union
- 7. President who proposed a lenient plan for Reconstruction
- 8. Freedmen sought these for equal protection and opportunity
- 9. Percent The percentage of loyalty required by Lincoln’s plan for states to rejoin
- 11. The right to vote, extended to Black men by the 15th Amendment
- 13. Legal change to the Constitution, like the 13th, 14th, and 15th
- 14. Region that needed rebuilding after the Civil War
- 15. Abolished slavery in the United States
- 16. The Northern states that won the Civil War
Down
- 2. The movement that sought to end slavery before and during the Civil War
- 3. Goal of Reconstruction to ensure all citizens had the same protections
- 4. Legislative body that opposed Lincoln’s lenient Reconstruction plan
- 5. President who succeeded Lincoln and continued Reconstruction
- 10. Former slaves who gained freedom after the Civil War
- 12. Agency established to aid freedmen and poor whites