Reconstruction

1. A historic period where there were millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems.
3. I assassinated Abraham Lincoln
4. The year reconstruction ended
5. The year reconstruction began
6. Controlled the house of representatives advocating for civil liberties and enfranchisement for former slaves.
9. A secret society of racist white people created to terrorize African American's.
11. forced people to pay to vote.
13. An agency established by congress to distribute food, supplies and more to former slaves.
14. White unionist republicans in the south who participated in modernizing and transform the region after civil war. Southern whites deemed them traitors.
15. Laws that were passed in the south that restricted African American's legal rights.
16. Place where Abraham Lincoln was shot
17. This amendment abolished slavery.

1. A political party known for its harsh policies toward the south.
2. I issued the Proclamation Emancipation.
4. This amendment granted African American men to vote.
5. This amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States"
7. president impeached for not following congressional reconstruction
8. Separating people based on skin color and race.
10. I am the 18th President of the United States.
12. Nickname for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil war.