reconstruction vocab

2. American businessman who built his wealth controlling the railroad industry.
4. Tests that were used to determine a person's reading and writing skills
5. Founding and leading the Standard Oil Company
7. A faction of the Republican Party that believed in harsh measures against the Southern states
8. legal provision that allowed individuals to bypass literacy tests or poll taxes if their grandfathers had been eligible to vote before the Civil War
11. His disagreement with the Radical Republicans in Congress about Reconstruction policies led to his removal from office.
12. An amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born in the us
14. The person who killed Lincoln
16. American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and founded JPMorgan Chase Bank
17. Amendment An amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
18. Powerful American industrialist who became wealthy through unethical business practices
20. A railroad that connected the eastern United States to the western territories

1. A law that provided land to settlers in the West
3. State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
6. Lincoln’s plan to help rebuild the south
9. Fees that individuals had to pay in order to vote
10. A term describing the political alignment of Southern states
13. investigative journalism that exposes corruption, scandals, and social injustices, particularly those of powerful businesses and government officials
15. An amendment that abolished slavery
19. American steel industry,controlled the U.S. steel market and related industries like mines and railroads.