Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. People who controlled Congress and wanted more changes in the former confederate states.
  2. 6. A general pardon of a large group of people.
  3. 7. A terrorist group found in former confederate states that fought against change.
  4. 10. Georgia was required to required to repeal their _______________________.
  5. 12. This abolished slavery in the United States
  6. 14. The president is in charge of the __________________ branch at the national level.
  7. 15. This provides equal citizenship to all born in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. President at the end of the Civil War.
  2. 2. A person who only rented land from a land owner in exchange for a share of the crops.
  3. 3. A person who owned very little and needed to borrow tools, land, and shelter to work in exchange for a share of the crops.
  4. 5. Government agency that worked to provide education, shelter, and other basic needs to newly freed slaves.
  5. 8. Congress is the _____________________ branch at the national level.
  6. 9. This states that the right to vote cannot be denied based on race.
  7. 11. Term referring to the time after the Civil War where changes were forced on former Confederate states.
  8. 13. Democratic President who declared that Reconstruction was over after very few changes.