Reconstruction (Selene & Addy)

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Across
  1. 2. Gave African Americans the right to vote
  2. 5. People that wanted southern states to change even more before returning to the Union
  3. 6. Defined people born or naturalized within the United States except American Indians, as U.S citizens
  4. 9. Admitting Southerners back into the Union to form a new government by doing pledges
  5. 13. Born free slave that served as a Chaplain for the Union and became the first African American in the U.S. Senate
  6. 14. Democrats that became control again of the states governments
  7. 15. Person that shot and killed Abraham Lincoln
  8. 16. Grew up in slavery in Virginia
  9. 17. Act that allowed African Americans the same legal rights as everyone else
  10. 19. An official pardon
  11. 22. Black americans with ancestry from Africa
  12. 23. Allowed former Confederates, except those who had held high ranks, to hold public office
  13. 24. One leader of the Radical Republicans from Pennsylvania
Down
  1. 1. Created by a group of white southerners in Tennessee
  2. 3. Made slavery illegal in the United States
  3. 4. Northern-born Republicans that moved to the south after the war
  4. 7. Laws that limited freedom rights for African Americans
  5. 8. Process of reuniting the nation and adding back the southern states without having slavery
  6. 10. Gave the poor people (Black or White) of the south food and assistance
  7. 11. Economic downturn that made 2 million people lose their jobs
  8. 12. The bill that the people of the congress that wanted the access to allowing states back into the union
  9. 18. Acts that divided the South in 5 districts until they rejoined the Union
  10. 20. Southern Democrats that cared even less for white southern Republicans
  11. 21. Vice President of president Lincoln