Reconstruction Era Crossword

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  1. 2. The 16th president of the United states
  2. 4. Plan passed by Lincoln that required all southerners to take an oath pledging loyalty to the Union
  3. 6. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
  4. 9. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one
  5. 11. African Americans living on Sea island harvested these instead of cotton
  6. 12. The name of the era that marks the end of the Civil war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877
  7. 13. Required that 50 percent of a state's White males take a loyalty oath to the United States to be readmitted to the Union but was turned down due to a pocket veto
  8. 15. a community made up of former enslaved African Americans near Vicksburg
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  1. 1. The name of the proclamation issued by Abraham lincoln in 1863 that permanently freed all slaves in areas under confederacy
  2. 3. The name of the areas occupied by the Union Army that eventually became the epicenter for the reconstruction
  3. 5. when a bill fails to become law because the president does not sign it within the ten-day period and cannot return the bill to Congress
  4. 7. Act that established a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans
  5. 8. Group of Republicans that agreed with Lincoln that the Southern states should be re-admitted into the Union as simply as possible
  6. 10. Group of Republicans that believed the South needed to be punished more painfully for their sins
  7. 14. War in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy