RECONSTRUCTION CROSSWORD

1. act that prohibited the president from firing high government officials without Congressional approval
4. the costly rebuilding of roads, canals, bridges, telephone lines, etc.
10. the first federal relief agency of the U.S.
11. group that didn’t want black people to gain their civil rights and harassed those who disagreed with them
12. farming in which plots of land are rented from landowners by families, for them to give the landowners a portion of their crop at the end of the year in return
14. proclamation that offered full forgiveness for the former Confederacy
16. act that banned the use of intimidation 1870
17. an event that would have a negative impact on plans for Reconstruction
18. failed promise of land redistribution to the newly freed black people
19. president that assumed partial responsibility for Reconstruction after Lincoln’s Assasination
20. plan that allowed states to write new constitutions once 10% of their voters pledged allegiance to the U.S.

2. a derogatory term used to describe Republicans from the North that moved South after the war
3. the amendment that protected men’s voting rights from being denied based on race
5. a derogatory term used to describe Southern Republicans who are white
6. time period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the U.S.
7. the amendment that granted citizenship rights to black people
8. act that divided South into 5 military districts, forcing the acceptance of the 14th amendment
9. Radical Republicans that thought Johnson was being too lenient and pushed for the civil rights of black people themselves
13. farming in which small plots of land are rented from landowners by families. Landowners are paid and have no authority over agriculture.
15. local laws that restrict the rights of freed slaves