Across
- 3. A bill passed in 1864 that would have given Congress control of Reconstruction
- 6. A white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War
- 7. An amendment made to the U.S. Constitution that makes all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens of the country
- 8. To formally charge an official with misconduct in office
- 12. The first African-American senator
- 13. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color
Down
- 1. People in congress that wanted to give African Americans full citizenship
- 2. A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War
- 4. Laws passed throughout the post-Civil-War South which severely restricted African Americans' lives
- 5. He succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president
- 9. A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
- 10. The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War
- 11. A system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
