Reconstruction

2. A person in Congress who believed the South should be punished for trying to secede
4. president assassinated a few days after the end of the Civil War
9. a formerly enslaved person
10. abolished slavery in the U.S.
11. White Southerners pledged that they had not voluntarily served in the Confederate army or aided the Confederacy
12. gave equal rights to all U.S. citizens regardless of race
14. Helped freed people find jobs, founded schools to provide education, and issued food, etc.
15. laws limiting the rights of formerly enslaved people by Southern governments
17. An official release from a punishment for a crime

1. white men who used violence and terror against formerly enslaved African Americans
3. vice president of Lincoln and new president after his death. He would become the first president impeached by the House of Representatives
5. era in time after the Civil War meant to rebuild the Southern states
6. date to signify the end of slavery in Texas
7. A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government
8. gave African American males the right to vote
13. to cancel
16. A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction