Across
- 2. Farmers who supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash
- 5. An amendment that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color
- 6. The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War
- 7. A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War
- 9. A bill vetoed by Abraham Lincoln, that would have given Congress control of reconstruction
- 10. Congressional Republicans who wanted to take away governing powers of former slave holders
- 12. A terrorist group founded by former Confederates, who attempted to restore white supremacy and prevent African Americans from expressing their political rights
- 13. A system in which land owners reward their workers in return for a part of the crops they raise
Down
- 1. Radical Republican, a Representative of Pennsylvania
- 3. Abraham Lincoln's successor
- 4. The process of accusing a public official of wrong doing
- 5. An amendment that all persons born or naturalized in the US citizens of the country
- 8. The first American Senator
- 11. Discriminatory laws passed that severely restricted African Americans' lives