Reconstruction Review Crossword

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  1. 4. The name of the period of Reconstruction when Congress took over policy-making ("__________ Reconstruction").
  2. 7. Government agency that gave aid to former slaves in the South after the Civil War (take out punctuation, two words together).
  3. 8. The 15th Amendment ensures all male citizens the right to __________.
  4. 9. The President in charge during Presidential Reconstruction. Also the first to be impeached (last name).
  5. 10. This former slave and abolitionist leader fought for the adoption of the 14th and 15th Amendments after the Civil War.
  6. 12. This southern leader urged Southerners to stop fighting and reunite as Americans (last name).
  7. 14. Adopted by Southern states to limit the freedom of former slaves after the 13th Amendment (2 words together).
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  1. 1. This was practically the only job left available for African-Americans under the Black Codes.
  2. 2. Northerners who took advantage of the South during Reconstruction.
  3. 3. The 14th Amendment grants this to all persons born in the US.
  4. 5. This leader's original plan for Reconstruction was to preserve the nation by punishing the South very little, but he was killed before he could enact this plan (last name).
  5. 6. The period after the Civil War.
  6. 11. ________ _______ (two words together) laws took away rights that African-Americans gained during Reconstruction.
  7. 13. The 13th Amendment bans this.