Civil War Crossword

2. a freed slave who was beaten
4. bill made it much harder for southern states to rejoin the union
6. vice president that was forced to take over the reconstruction
9. He became a Methodist minister and served as a chaplain in the Union army
13. This act provided African-Americans with the same legal rights as white americans
14. the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing to a public official
16. Gradually these Democrats took control of the state governments in the south they were called
21. These laws divided the south into five districts
22. ran under a slogan “Let Us Have Peace” He left the plantation
23. This panic marked the beginning of a severe economic downturn that soon put an estimated 2 million people out of work

1. law that limited the rights of African americans
3. They wanted to change the southern states
5. Another word for an official pardon
7. Southern Democrats cared even less for Southern Republicans they often referred to them as
8. person who killed President Lincoln
10. He became an important Republican in Mississippi and was the first African American to serve full time as a U.S senator
11. purpose was to relief poor people white and black in the south
12. This Amendment defined all people born or naturalized within the United States, except American Indians, as U.S citizens The Fourteenth Amendment
15. Compromise Democrats agreed to accept Haye’s victory
17. Many white people called these Republicans
18. Louisiana was elected a new state under the
19. process of reuniting the nation
20. In 1866 a group of white southerners in Tennessee created this infamous group