Chapter 18 Reconstruction

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