Across
- 2. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
- 6. members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
- 7. Southern whites who became republicans
- 8. Agency that provided relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South
- 9. Leader of the Radical Republicans
- 12. Granted equal rights to african americans
- 13. the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union
- 15. required states to swear an oath of loyalty to the united states and agree that slavery was illegal
- 16. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
- 19. Fake railroad corporation created by Union Pacific stockholders and paid themselves with grants from the Federal Government
- 20. Requried potential voters to read and explain difficult concepts in order to vote
- 21. African Americans rented a piece of land to farm from a land owner
- 22. Social organization fromed in 1866 in Tennessee that intimidated African Americans and White Supporters with violent Tactics
Down
- 1. Office holders who were northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the War
- 3. Forced labor system that required former slaves to enter contracts with white planters to work off debts
- 4. made slavery illegal throughout the united states
- 5. Gave African Americans the right to vote
- 10. Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials
- 11. southern states took advantage of this reconstruction plan as he was from the south
- 14. Ulysees S. Grant is elected President, in part, to votes by African Americans in the South
- 17. hid in his office after President Johnson attempted to fire him
- 18. poor African Americans worked a piece of land and gave land owner 1/3-1/2 of annual crop