Reconstruction

3. – Farming system where tenants worked land in exchange for a share of crops.
4. – Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
5. – Renting land for cash or crops, often leading to debt.
12. - Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
13. – Senator and Radical Republican advocating civil rights for African Americans.
16. - Formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War.
17. - The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
21. – Congressional plan that enforced civil rights and military oversight in the South.
22. - Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction.
23. – White supremacist group using violence to oppose Reconstruction.
24. – Divided the South into military districts.

1. – Abolished slavery in the United States.
2. – Reconstruction plan led by Lincoln and Johnson with lenient policies toward the South.
6. – Agency that provided education, food, and assistance to freed slaves.
7. – Radical Republican leader who pushed for strong protections for freedmen.
8. – Lincoln’s successor; favored lenient Reconstruction and clashed with Congress.
9. – Civil War general and president during much of Reconstruction.
10. – Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
11. – President during the Civil War; proposed a lenient plan for Reconstruction before his assassination.
14. – Southern laws restricting African Americans’ rights after slavery.
15. – Gave African Americans citizenship and equal rights under the law.
18. – Ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
19. – Lincoln’s plan requiring 10% loyalty to rejoin the Union.
20. – Former enslaved person and leading voice for Black civil rights.