Reconstruction

5. Were white Southerners who joined the Republican Party.
6. Landowners divided their land and gave each worker-either freed African American or poor whites-a few acres.
8. Which states that no one can be kept from voting.
10. All persons born or naturalized in the United States.
11. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws.
12. who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president.

1. Proposed that Congress, not the President, be responsible for Reconstruction.
2. Were Northerners who moved to the South after the War.
3. The Radical Republicans were Senators who wanted to punish the South after the Civil War.
4. The first African-American senator.
7. Was the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War.
8. Was established by Congress and it assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by giving clothing and food.
9. The president-that is,to formally charge him with misconduct in office.