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Across
  1. 1. led to creation of Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and other agriculture and mechanical colleges
  2. 4. Terrorist group that used intimidation and violence to prevent African Americans from participating in American society
  3. 6. gave land to Native Americans (but designed to confiscate land and assimilate into white American society)
  4. 7. Former slaves were called ___ during Reconstruction
  5. 10. The 15th Amendment granted THIS to African Americans, which means the right to vote
  6. 12. Southerners who supported Radical Republican policies and civil rights for African Americans
  7. 13. ___ Acts - divided South into 5 military zones, prohibited former Confederates from office
  8. 16. System similar to slavery that forced African Americans into a cycle of never-ending debt to plantation owners
  9. 17. Plessy v. Ferguson legitimized and legally allowed ____, as long as services provided were "separate but equal."
  10. 18. Cheap land offered as long as you farmed it
  11. 20. Took over as President after Lincoln's assassination; impeached for constantly vetoing Radical Republican legislation that supported civil rights
  12. 21. Federal program that helped African Americans receive education, health care, and job training
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  1. 2. The 14th Amendment granted ___ and full civil rights protections for African Americans
  2. 3. Extended black codes to further limit African American involvement in politics, which included poll taxes, literacy tests, and "grandfather clauses."
  3. 5. The ___ Act granted a full pardon to former Confederate leaders
  4. 8. Group in Congress that wanted to punish the South for starting the war by passing the Wade-Davis Bill
  5. 9. Former Union general elected President for two full terms, and supported civil rights for freedmen
  6. 11. limited civil rights of African Americans using slave codes to limit their ability to find a job and own land
  7. 14. First African American elected to Congress - Hiram Rhodes ____
  8. 15. Northerners who moved South looking for open political offices
  9. 19. Lincoln's lenient, forgiving plan to let Southern states re-join the Union