Across
- 2. an agency created by the government that helped and protected newly freed African Americans fin jobs, homes, education,and a better life.
- 5. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. including former slaves.
- 8. to charge a public official with wrongdoing.
- 11. an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War.
- 12. an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States.
- 13. a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.
Down
- 1. protects the rights of the American to vote in elections to elect their leaders.
- 3. a white southerner who supported the Republicans.
- 4. the period after the American Civil War, during which determining the legal status of African Americans.
- 6. the nation's first African American senator.
- 7. a political faction of American politicians within the Republican Party.
- 9. a set of laws passed by Georgia,and most southern states, after the Civil War to restrict the rights of the freedmen.
- 10. the Radical Republican answer to Lincoln's 10% Plan.