Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. – The right to be treated fairly and equally as everyone else.
  2. 5. – Keeping black and white people separate.
  3. 6. – The right to vote.
  4. 10. – A group of people who wanted to punish the South and give freed slaves more rights.
  5. 11. – Laws that made it harder for freed slaves.
  6. 12. – Laws that forced segregation in the South.
  7. 14. – The Northern states that fought to end slavery and keep the country together.
  8. 16. – The President who didn’t want to punish the South after the Civil War.
  9. 17. – Slaves who were freed after the Civil War.
  10. 18. – The law that let African American men vote.
Down
  1. 1. – The time after the Civil War when the U.S. tried to fix things in the South and helped freed slaves recover.
  2. 2. – The Southern states that fought against the North in the Civil War.
  3. 3. – A Southerner who worked with the North during Reconstruction.
  4. 4. – A person from the North who moved to the South after the Civil War, sometimes seen as taking advantage of things.
  5. 7. – The law that ended slavery.
  6. 8. – A change or update to the Constitution.
  7. 9. – A group that used violence to stop African Americans from getting rights.
  8. 13. – A person who was born in the U.S with equal rights.
  9. 15. – A system where farmers worked on land and gave half of their crops to the land owner.
  10. 17. – The law that made everyone born in the U.S. a citizen and gave them equal rights.