Reconstruction
Across
- 2. laws which governed the conduct of African Americans.
- 4. prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote
- 10. American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869.
- 11. a faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854
- 13. referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
Down
- 1. one of the Reconstruction Amendments
- 3. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
- 5. a period in United States history following the American Civil War
- 6. a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction
- 7. a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct
- 8. system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- 9. first black senator
- 12. a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government,"