Radical Reconstruction

1. Died alongside the end of the Civil War
3. Amendment that abolished slavery
5. ______ War took place in 1861-1865
7. A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual
8. Wanted blacks to have a chance to compete in a free-labor economy
10. Consisted of the southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War
16. Refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States
17. To abolish, invalidate, or reverse
18. Opposed Johnson's policies along with Stevens
20. Congress approved of what Amendment in 1867?
21. Believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites

2. laws, considered collectively
4. The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid
6. Republicans believed ________ leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War
9. wanted to preserve their way of life
11. Amendment that granted African-Americans the right to vote
12. A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body
13. The portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
14. First president to be impeached
15. Opposed Johnson's policies
19. Johnson _______ the Civil Rights bill