Reconstruction Project Amenah
Across
- 3. Guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places such as theaters, and public transportation
- 5. A purpose to provide relief for all poor people, black and white, in the South
- 6. These acts divided the south into five districts
- 10. A vice president that was responsible for reconstruction
- 11. process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states without slavery
- 13. People who wanted the southern states to change much more than they had before so they could return to the Union
- 14. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
- 15. An act that allowed former Confederates, except those who held high ranks, to hold public office
- 17. This secret society opposed civil rights, and hid their identities
- 19. Leader of Radical Republicans
- 20. Marked the beginning of a severe economic downturn that soon put an estimated 3 million people out of work
- 21. It made state laws subject to review by federal courts
Down
- 1. Gave African American men throughout the United States to vote
- 2. During a play, he sneaked into the president's theater box and shot him
- 4. Gave African American men throughout the United States to vote
- 7. Provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
- 8. a bill of 1864proposed for the Reconstruction of the South
- 9. a United States presidential proclamation issued on December8,1863
- 12. Southern Democrats cared even less for white southern Republicans, they referred to them as a name
- 16. Made slavery illegal throughout the United States
- 18. He became an important Republican in Mississippi and was the first African American to serve a full term as a U.S. senator.