congressional reconstruction

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Across
  1. 4. – Type of rule imposed on the South.
  2. 7. – Northerner who moved South after the war.
  3. 10. – Former enslaved people freed after the Civil War.
  4. 12. – To restore the South after the war.
  5. 13. – President’s rejection of a law.
  6. 14. – Amendment granting citizenship to freedmen.
  7. 15. – A pardon for former Confederates.
Down
  1. 1. – Southern white who supported Reconstruction.
  2. 2. – Amendment giving Black men the vote.
  3. 3. – Branch that led Reconstruction efforts.
  4. 5. – To charge a government official with wrongdoing.
  5. 6. – Racial separation in public life.
  6. 8. – Southern laws limiting freedmen’s rights.
  7. 9. – Bringing Southern states back into the Union.
  8. 11. – Member of Congress favoring strict Reconstruction.