RECONSTRUCTION

5. technically illegal tax on southern blacks who wanted to vote after Reconstruction
6. the man who became President after Lincoln's assassination
7. the post-Civil War addition to the U.S. Constitution which gave freed blacks U.S. citizenship
8. the method by which Congress can put a sitting U.S. president on trial
10. Radical Republican leader of the House of Representatives after the Civil War
11. laws passed by southern towns, cities, and states after Reconstruction which legally kept blacks from mixing with whites
13. system of tenant farming which kept most freed blacks poor after the Civil War
14. addition to U.S. Constitution which gave black men the right to vote
15. the U.S. government's plan for forcing the South to once again become part of the USA
16. only state which refused to ratify the 13th Amendment until the 21st century
17. the 1896 Supreme Court decision which supported Jim Crow laws by endorsing the principle of "separate but equal"
18. very difficult reading and writing tests meant to prevent blacks from voting in the South after Reconstruction
19. government agency set up after the Civil War to help newly freed slaves
21. southern nickname for southerners who cooperated with the northern occupying troops

1. amendment to U.S. Constitution which officially ended slavery
2. President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction which only asked 10% of white male southern voters to swear allegiance to the USA
3. legally enforced separation of blacks and whites
4. Radical Republican senator who was beaten badly on the floor of Congress by a southern congressman before the Civil War
9. the political party which controlled Congress after the Civil War
12. southern nickname for Yankees who came south after the Civil War
20. freed slaves who moved to the Mid-West and west after the Civil War