Across
- 7. Allowed former Confederates, except those who had held high ranks, to hold public office
- 8. People who wanted the southern states to change much more than they already had before they could return to the Union
- 13. Leaders of Radical Republicans
- 16. Amendment that gave African American men throughout the United States the right to vote
- 17. Lincoln’s Vice President
- 18. An official pardon
- 20. Southerner who assassinated Lincoln
- 21. Process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states without slavery
- 22. Society that opposed civil rights for African Americans
- 23. Marked the beginning of a severe economic downturn that soon put an estimated 2 million people out of work
- 24. Laws that divided the South into five districts, with a U.S. military commander in control of each district
Down
- 1. Amendment that made slavery illegal in U.S.
- 2. Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public
- 3. Laws that divided South into five districts with a military commander at the head of each one
- 4. Act that guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public place
- 5. Name that Southern Democrats gave white southern Republicans, also means “mean fellows”
- 6. Amendment that said guaranteed U.S. citizens protection of the laws, and that no states can take away your right to “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”
- 9. Act that provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
- 10. Northern-born Republicans that had moved south after the war
- 11. A special tax people had to pay before they could vote
- 12. A bill that said a state had to meet two conditions before it could rejoin the Union
- 14. Plan made by Lincoln that made it so once 10% of voters made pledges of loyalty to the U.S., they could form a new government
- 15. Place thats purpose was to provide relief for all poor people in the south
- 19. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans