Across
- 3. A secret group of White Southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting.
- 5. President after Lincoln’s assassination
- 7. Gave African Americans citizenship
- 9. System in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops
- 12. Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War
- 13. Northerners who moved to the South after the war
Down
- 1. Minority of Republicans in Congress which were angered by Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan. They wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders. Most of all, they wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote.
- 2. Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote
- 4. A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.
- 6. The first African-American senator
- 8. President who ended Reconstruction on 1877.
- 10. White Southerners who joined the Republican Party
- 11. Renting land from landowners for cash
