Reconstruction Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. White southerners who supported Reconstruction
  2. 3. Northerners who went to the South and became involved in politics and took advantage of the south's situation
  3. 5. divided the south into five military districts
  4. 9. Laws passed to prevent free blacks from gaining full rights
  5. 11. offered 160 acres of land to settlers who moved to the west
  6. 12. encouraged Native Americans to give up their land. Sent Native American children to boarding schools
  7. 15. this amendment officially ended slavery in the US
Down
  1. 1. group that wanted to punish the south
  2. 4. Lincoln's vice president who took over after his assination
  3. 6. secret organization that violently attacked African Americans
  4. 7. African Americans who were now emanciapated
  5. 8. This amendment gave citizenship to former slaves
  6. 10. Rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights
  7. 13. Person who wanted to be forgiving toward the south
  8. 14. Farmers who worked a landowner's land and received part of the crop they grew instead of wages