Unit 6 Puzzle

2. Law that broke the South into 5 military districts run by various generals.
4. When a President grants forgiveness to someone for crimes committed.
7. Cartoon character--used in Southern newspapers and comic strips to make fun of and demean African Americans.
11. Name given to state laws in the South that were meant to restrict the rights of the freed slaves in their states.
12. Lincoln support ____________ in regards to the Confederacy and preferred to make it easy for them to earn forgiveness.
13. Northerners that traveled South to help freed slaves transition to freedom--despised by the majority of the white population.
16. White supremacist organization founded during Reconstruction that was meant to hurt, kill and intimidate anyone supporting African American equality.
17. Republican candidate who became president as part of the compromise
18. Which President was impeached due to his immense unpopularity?
19. Political party that agreed to the Compromise of 1877 to gain the presidency
23. _____________ Republicans were members of the party that supported total freedom and equality for freed slaves.
24. The Democrat that lost the 1876 Presidential election.
25. White southerners that helped freed slaves transition to freedom--seen as traitors in the South.
26. Which Amendment to the Constitution granted equal protection under the law for freed slaves?
27. Which Union general won the 1868 Presidential election?

1. What was the name of the bill Congress tried to pass but got vetoed by Lincoln--it would have made it harder for a state to earn forgiveness and reenter the US.
3. Informal agreement that settled the 1876 election
5. Political Party that agreed to give up the Presidency in 1877 in return for removal of soldiers in the South, thus ending Reconstruction.
6. What state did Andrew Johnson come from?
8. The 15th Amendment gave black men the right to...
9. The rebuilding of American after the Civil War.
10. There were 4 ___________ freed slaves in the US after the Civil War.
14. Which President pardoned thousands of Confederate soldiers, officers and politicians for their crimes committed during the Civil War?
15. Government agency created to help freed slaves transition to freedom
20. What President pushed forth the Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction?
21. Lincoln believed that the ___________ should determine what rights freed slaves should have after the Civil War.
22. What party was US Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes members of?