Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. to overturn or defeat, as a bill proposed in Congress
  2. 5. law passed in 1866
  3. 8. act that forgave southerners
  4. 11. granted full citizenship to all people born in the US
  5. 12. the period of rebuilding after the Civil War
  6. 14. decree that required a majority of white males in the state to swear loyalty to union
  7. 15. a single grown by farmers
Down
  1. 1. shot Lincoln
  2. 3. gave all male citizens the right to vote
  3. 4. what former confederates called them
  4. 6. helped African Americans adjust to freedom
  5. 7. abolished slavery throughout the US
  6. 9. war hero president
  7. 10. northerners who moved to the south after the Civil War
  8. 13. passed by white southerners to control freed African Americans