Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
  2. 4. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
  3. 5. Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War
  4. 7. period beginning in 1867, when the Republicans who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction
  5. 9. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
  6. 10. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction
  2. 2. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  3. 6. Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners
  4. 8. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.