8th Grade: Crossword for Sections 9.1-9.2

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Across
  1. 6. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that made former slaves U.S. citizens
  2. 7. men & women who had been slaves
  3. 8. to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official
  4. 12. period beginning in 1867, when the Republicans, who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction
  5. 14. an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that required 50% of eligible voters to swear allegiance to U.S before a southern state would become independent; & denied voting or hold office to former Confederate soldiers
  6. 15. Lincoln’s plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
  7. 17. an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Down
  1. 1. rebuilding the South after the Civil War
  2. 2. an 1869 amendment to the U.S. Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
  3. 3. 17th president of the United States (1865-1869), impeached by House, but not convicted by Senate
  4. 4. government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
  5. 5. an 1865 amendment to the U. S. Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation
  6. 9. 16th president of the United States (1861-1865)
  7. 10. Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
  8. 11. member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
  9. 13. 18th president of the United States (1869-1877), he led U.S. during middle & late Reconstruction
  10. 16. government pardon