Unit 7 | Civil War | Vocab | Vol. II | Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. a Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
  2. 5. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  3. 9. ended slavery, except as a punishment for a crime.
  4. 11. to cancel a law or ordinance
  5. 12. was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law
  6. 14. is a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or another legal document.
  7. 15. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
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  1. 1. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction
  2. 2. an official release from punishment for a crime
  3. 4. June 19, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
  4. 6. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people
  5. 7. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free.
  6. 8. the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganzie the seceded states and bring them back into the Union
  7. 10. a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government
  8. 13. a formally enslaved person