Across
- 3. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
- 4. The three amendments to the Constitution that resulted from the Civil War and abolished slavery, guaranteed civil rights, and guaranteed blacks the right to vote
- 6. Set up to help freedmen and white refugees after Civil War. Provided food, clothing, medical care, and education. First to establish schools for blacks to learn to read as thousands of teachers from the north came south to help. Lasted from 1865-72. Attacked by KKK and other southerners as "carpetbaggers" Encouraged former plantation owners to rebuild their plantations, urged freed Blacks to gain employment, kept an eye on contracts between labor and management, etc
- 7. Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
- 9. Northern Republican Congressmen who supported African-American citizenship and punishment for former Confederates
- 10. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
Down
- 1. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
- 2. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- 5. Attempted against President in 1868; power struggle b/t him and Congress; President removed cabinet officer w/o Senate approval & interfered w/ Congressional reconstruction; crippled his presidency
- 8. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
- 10. A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners