Reconstruction Crossword
Across
- 2. First african american senator
- 5. Laws made to restrict the rights of african americans
- 9. government group made to distribute necessary supplies to any displaced southerners, including now freed african americans
- 10. To formally charge a president with misconduct while in office
- 11. 17th president of the united states
- 12. A white southerner who supported the northern republicans during reconstruction
- 13. This states that; "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Down
- 1. This states that; "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"
- 3. A legal arrangement in which a land owner of a farm would split up some of their property to give to tenants, who would harvest the crop on their land and give the land owner a share of the crop.
- 4. Northerners who moved the south after the civil war
- 6. A group of politicians who formed a faction within the republican party, led by Thaddeus Stevens
- 7. Rebuilding period after the civil war
- 8. Set conditions for states that desired to re-enter the union