Reconstruction

3. Group in Congress pushing for harsh Reconstruction measures.
4. Southern laws restricting the rights of freed African Americans.
5. Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
6. Deal ending Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
8. Abolished slavery in the U.S.
10. Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction for political/economic gain.
14. Law limiting the president’s power to remove officials; led to Johnson’s impeachment.
15. Formerly enslaved person emancipated after the Civil War.
16. Southern white who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
17. Farming system where freedpeople rented land for a share of the crops.
18. Union general during the Civil War and later U.S. president who supported Reconstruction.
19. Segregation laws that institutionalized racism in the South.
20. Scandal during Grant’s presidency involving tax fraud.
21. Political tactic reminding voters of Union victory and Confederate treason.

1. White supremacist group that used terror to intimidate freedpeople and Republicans.
2. President after Lincoln, clashed with Radical Republicans.
7. Legal or social separation of races.
9. Process of charging a government official with wrongdoing.
11. Southern Democrats who regained control from Republicans after Reconstruction.
12. Southern effort to restore white rule after federal troops withdrew.
13. Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.