Reconstruction Cross Word

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Across
  1. 2. Military rule imposed on citizens instead of civil law and government.
  2. 4. Granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people
  3. 6. A secret terrorist organization in the U.S. made up of white people who are opposed to people of other races
  4. 9. Laws passed in the south that discriminated against Freedmen, including laws on curfews, laws regulating work and pay
  5. 10. The first woman in America to receive a medical degree
  6. 11. An insulting word for Northerners who moved to the South after the war to profit from reconstruction
  7. 13. Officially abolished slavery in all parts of the U.S. after the Civil War
  8. 16. Insulting name for white southerners who supported reconstruction efforts
  9. 17. The freeing of enslaved people by the authority that held them
  10. 18. Gave voting rights to all African American men
  11. 20. Connected the east coast to the west coast of The United States
Down
  1. 1. The idea that the government's power comes from the people
  2. 3. The first military unit consisting of Black soldiers to be raised in the North during the Civil War
  3. 5. 18th President of the U.S. elected in 1868, he campaigned on his Civil War experience as commanding general of the Union forces
  4. 7. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
  5. 8. 16th President of the U.S., serving during the Civil War. He emancipated enslaved people, and was assassinated in 1865.
  6. 12. A system of agriculture in which a landowner allowed a tenant farmer to use land in exchange for a share of the crop
  7. 14. An agency set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
  8. 15. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War
  9. 19. Compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces