RECONSTRUCTION

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Across
  1. 8. name given to laws requiring segregation that were passed by southern states
  2. 10. U.S. government agency that established schools in the South and provided food, clothing, and medical services to poor Blacks and Whites
  3. 12. process established in the Constitution to remove a president from office
  4. 14. a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in exchange for a portion of the crop
  5. 16. laws passed by southern states to limit the freedom of freed men and women
  6. 19. vice president who became president after Lincoln's death
  7. 21. three-word phrase that helps remember the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
  8. 22. Union general elected president in 1868
  9. 23. allowed southern whitesto vote without passing a literacy test
  10. 24. secret society of whites that used threats and violence to frighten southern blacks from voting
  11. 25. President Johnson was impeached for attempting to fire this member of the cabinet
Down
  1. 1. the amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
  2. 2. place Lincoln was shot
  3. 3. the amendment that extended the right to vote to African-American men
  4. 4. a tax that had to be paid in order for a person to be able to vote
  5. 5. name given to northern whites who supported Reconstruction and who moved to the south after the Civil War
  6. 6. Lincoln's assassin
  7. 7. the amendment that declared that, regardless of race, all persons born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens
  8. 9. Supreme Court decision that allowed segregation by establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine
  9. 11. separating people on the basis of their race
  10. 13. name applied to Republicans in Congress who wanted to force greater changes on the South
  11. 14. name given southern whites who cooperated with Republican Reconstruction
  12. 15. white southern democrats who regained control of southern state governments after Reconstruction
  13. 17. name given to Lincoln's plan to allow southern states to form a new government once 10% of the state's voters took an oath to be loyal to the United States
  14. 18. requirements that voters first prove that they were able to read
  15. 20. became president after agreeing to withdraw all federal troops from the south