Reconstruction

3. Southern actor who assassinated President Lincoln
5. laws passed to restrict the rights of African Americans
8. Southerner who supported the Reconstruction efforts in the South
11. the process of removing an elected official from office
12. Law or act that limited the President's power to fire cabinet members
14. Amendment passed to give citizenship to African Americans
15. founded by ex-Confederate soldiers; was a secret fraternal organization that used violent tactics against African Americans
17. 17th President of the United States
18. 1st African American elected to US Congress
19. group of Congressmen during Reconstruction who wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of Freedmen
20. created a generational cycle of debt for poor southern whites and freedmen

1. Laws passed in the South shortly after Reconstruction ended to restrict African Americans Rights, "Separate but equal"
2. Era after the Civil War, focused on rebuilding the South
4. a railroad system completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah that connected East and West
6. government agency established to help freedmen after the Civil War
7. Northerner who went south during Reconstruction to seek economic opportunities
9. 16th President who was assassinated shortly after the Civil War ended
10. Amendment passed to give suffrage to African American males
13. Amendment passed to end slavery in the United States
16. passed in 1867 it divided the South into 5 military districts run by Union Generals; South could rejoin Union if they created new constitutions and ratified the 14th Amendment