Reconstruction (The period after the Civil War)

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Across
  1. 2. term describing southern white republicans
  2. 3. African nation founded for freed slaves
  3. 8. Civl War hero and POTUS #18
  4. 11. political party that supported black rights
  5. 12. political party that opposed reconstruction
  6. 14. laws designed to limit black peoples' rights
  7. 16. number of the amendment that freed the slaves
  8. 17. farming system that many black families used
  9. 19. law that allowed blacks to become citizens
  10. 20. POTUS elected in very close election of 1876
  11. 21. it provided education, jobs, homes to freedmen
  12. 22. the ability to read & write
  13. 23. organization formed by Confederate veterans
  14. 24. fee that was charged so blacks could vote
Down
  1. 1. last name of Grant's Vice President
  2. 3. hanging(ex= white southerners of slaves)
  3. 4. the south was split into 5 of these after CW
  4. 5. assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
  5. 6. amendment that gave black men suffrage
  6. 7. POTUS #17, was impeached, survived by 1 vote!
  7. 9. slave that led a huge revolt in VA in 1831
  8. 10. term describing northerners who went South
  9. 13. Grant's presidency had some of this ):
  10. 15. location of military cemetery outside of D.C.
  11. 18. SC case that declared "separate but equal"