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