Reconstruction Terms

3. To charge the holder of the public office with misconduct.
7. Wilkes Booth: he assassinated Abraham Lincoln
10. To gain money illegally through politics.
11. Amendment: Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
12. Barton:Famous battlefield nurse.
13. These people arrived with suitcases made of carpet fabric
16. Lincoln: Created the Emancipation Proclamation; also the 16th president

1. Sherman: This person does total warfare and burns a path of destruction through Atlanta Georgia
2. Rebuilding after war.
4. War: A war between citizens of the same country.
5. Amendment: Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and declared that no state could deny any person "equal protection of the laws."
6. An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses
8. Grant: This person led the North to victory in the civil war.
9. An old Scotch-Irish term for weak, underfed, worthless animals, or white southerners who supported reconstruction.
14. Courthouse: Where Lee goes to Grant and surrenders his army on April 9th
15. codes: Limited African Americans' rights in the South