Chapter 18 Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. African Americans rented a piece of land to farm from a land owner
  2. 6. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
  3. 7. hid in his office after President Johnson attempted to fire him
  4. 9. Office holders who were northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the War
  5. 13. Agency that provided relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South
  6. 15. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
  7. 16. made slavery illegal throughout the united states
  8. 18. required states to swear an oath of loyalty to the united states and agree that slavery was illegal
  9. 20. Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials
  10. 21. southern states took advantage of this reconstruction plan as he was from the south
  11. 22. Ulysees S. Grant is elected President, in part, to votes by African Americans in the South
Down
  1. 1. Gave African Americans the right to vote
  2. 3. Southern whites who became republicans
  3. 4. Leader of the Radical Republicans
  4. 5. Forced labor system that required former slaves to enter contracts with white planters to work off debts
  5. 8. the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union
  6. 10. Requried potential voters to read and explain difficult concepts in order to vote
  7. 11. poor African Americans worked a piece of land and gave land owner 1/3-1/2 of annual crop
  8. 12. members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  9. 14. Granted equal rights to african americans
  10. 17. Social organization fromed in 1866 in Tennessee that intimidated African Americans and White Supporters with violent Tactics
  11. 19. Fake railroad corporation created by Union Pacific stockholders and paid themselves with grants from the Federal Government