Reconstruction (Mallory E)

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Across
  1. 2. Laws that divided the South into five districts
  2. 3. Northern-born Republicans who had moved south after the war
  3. 5. They could form a new government once ten percent of the voters showed their loyalty and accepted the ban on slavery
  4. 6. This person won the 1868 election
  5. 9. The president during the Civil War
  6. 10. Massachusetts leader of the Radical Republicans
  7. 13. A special tax that people had to pay before they could vote
  8. 18. This act allowed former confederates to hold public office
  9. 20. The process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the south
  10. 22. This man shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre
  11. 26. Democrats who regained control of state governments in the south
  12. 27. Laws that required segregation
  13. 28. A state had to meet two conditions before it could rejoin the Union, banning slavery, and a majority of the adults in the US had to take the loyalty oath
  14. 29. Wanted the southern states to change much more than they already had before they could return back to the Union
  15. 30. This amendment guaranteed to citizens the equal protection of the laws
Down
  1. 1. Pennsylvania’s leader of the Radical Republicans
  2. 4. Southern Democrats cared less for white southern republicans. They called them these
  3. 7. This amendment gave African American men throughout the United States the right to vote
  4. 8. Group of white southerners who opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage for African Americans
  5. 10. Guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places
  6. 11. By the end of 1865, all southern states except _____ had formed new governments
  7. 12. This person became president after Lincoln was assassinated
  8. 14. This amendment made slavery illegal in the United States
  9. 15. high food prices and crop failures
  10. 16. President elected in 1877
  11. 17. Marked the beginning of a severe economic downturn that soon put 2 million people out of work
  12. 19. Provides relief for all poor people in the south
  13. 21. This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
  14. 23. Laws that limited the freedom of African Americans
  15. 24. Forced separation between African Americans and whites in public places
  16. 25. African American politician