Across
- 3. Former Union general who became the 18th president
- 7. the person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- 9. A "supermajority," or the vote needed in the Senate to convict in an impeachment trial
- 10. An organization that helped freed African Americans get education was the Freedmen's ______.
- 11. The right to vote
- 14. laws passed to keep freedmen on plantations
- 16. Constitutional amendment defining citizenship and guaranteeing equal protection under the laws
- 17. Congress's counter-proposal plan for Reconstruction that required a majority of voters to take a loyalty oath
- 18. the first African American to serve as a U.S. House member
- 19. southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction
- 20. Radical Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
- 23. Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were _____ Republicans who wanted to dramatically change the South
- 24. 17th president of the United States
Down
- 1. Former Confederate general who supported Congressional Reconstruction
- 2. "No one may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without ____ _______ of law." - 14th Amendment
- 4. To formally accept or give consent to an amendment
- 5. a Southern social club turned white supremacist domestic terror organization
- 6. Andrew Johnson was _______ for violating the Tenure of Office Act
- 8. the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator
- 12. a term for formerly enslaved African Americans
- 13. northerners who moved south to make money helping rebuild the south
- 15. Lincoln used this to kill Congress's Reconstruction bill
- 19. Union general who issued Special Field Order 15
- 21. Under the First Reconstruction Act, Congress divided the South into 5 military _____.
- 22. Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction
