Reconstruction Era Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Not only did African Americans suffer politically, they suffered economically. Having farming skills and little other opportunities, many turned to ___________________.
  2. 3. President Lincoln wanted to treat the South mildly, but others had ______________________ ideas.
  3. 5. combine
  4. 8. forgiveness
  5. 9. result
  6. 10. The "freedom" many African Americans found was not what they had hoped for, so they had to _____________ their expectations.
  7. 11. During Reconstructions, many former enslaved people received training at ___________________________ set up by Northern missionaries.
  8. 13. type of loan
  9. 16. White Southerners worked to ________________African Americans from fully taking part in society and government.
  10. 18. ________________________ was the period and a process that took place after the Civil War.
  11. 19. scoundrel
  12. 20. tax A _____________ __________ made voting too expensive for most African Americans.
Down
  1. 2. clause When some Southern states enacted a ________________________ _____________, virtually no African American was eligible to vote.
  2. 4. Test African Americans might not read well enough to pass a _________________ ____________.
  3. 6. accuse
  4. 7. President Johnson set the stage for his impeachment when he chose to _____________Edwin Stanton, his Secretary of War.
  5. 9. overrule
  6. 12. dishonesty
  7. 14. separation
  8. 15. codes Southern states passed laws called ________________ __________ to limit the freedom of the former enslaved people.
  9. 17. group of officials
  10. 21. Mobs killed African Americans by _______________________. Members of the Ku Klux Klan terrorized them.