Chapter 18 Reconstruction

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