Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. part of the Radical Republican plan to reintegrate the former-Confederate states back into the Union while also ensuring southern states were aligned with the country's values.
  2. 7. Individuals who owned their own farm equipment and animals but rented a small portion of land to grow crops
  3. 9. Land lent to a worker along with a place to live, seeds and farm equipment in return for a small portion of the crops
  4. 11. Dividing the south into sections and being placed under military leadership.
  5. 13. believed n the abolition of slavery and total equality of the races, wanted harsher punishments for the south
  6. 14. Political, social, and economic change in order to reenter the United States
  7. 15. Organization, which was created to help freed slaves with education, medicine, and supplies after the Civil War
  8. 16. Southern states should be punished for War; required majority of voters to take loyalty oath to the Union, Congress passed 14th Amendment (making all former slaves US citizens)
Down
  1. 1. passed by congress to abolish slavery
  2. 3. Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South
  3. 4. Ten percent of the population swore an oath of allegiance to the United States; Ratified the 13th Amendment, which officially ended slavery.
  4. 5. relatively low-wage labor that shifted the work from agriculture to industry
  5. 6. passed by congress to granted citizenship to freedmen; required freedmen to be given “equal protection under the law”
  6. 8. passed by congress to give all males the right to vote regardless of race/ethnicity
  7. 10. To approve, To Pass
  8. 12. Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen.