Across
- 1. a faction with very heavy support of abolishment of slavery in the Senate and House
- 6. first african-american to serve in office
- 8. all people born/naturalized in the US are legally american citizens according to this
- 10. a bill that stated 50% of the white men in a state must swear allegience to the union and give blacks the right to vote to be readmitted into the union
- 11. northerners who went south to profit from the reconstruction
- 12. a term for white southerners who supported reconstruction
Down
- 2. period during which attampts were made to redress the inequalities of slavery and its political legacy
- 3. provided aid to numerous blacks in the form of food, housing, and medical aid.
- 4. to charge a person in office with misconduct
- 5. no citizen should be refused the right to vote according to this
- 7. the 17th US President
- 9. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop