The Reconstruction Era

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Across
  1. 2. to come back together
  2. 6. declared that "all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
  3. 7. the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union in the years 1865 to 1877
  4. 9. a southerner who opposed Lincoln's policies; assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington DC
  5. 10. This offered the Southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting rebellion
  6. 11. The south
Down
  1. 1. President Lincoln's Vice President who was sworn into office upon Lincoln's death
  2. 3. the 16th President of the United States; responsible for leading the Union to victory in the Civil War and abolishing slavery
  3. 4. this made slavery illegal in the United States
  4. 5. The North
  5. 8. to formally put an end to