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