This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Civil War & Reconstruction has 30 clues. Answers range from 5 to 19 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
In Lincoln's 10% plan, he wanted to pass a proclamation of
A Radical Republican leader in congress, from Pennsylvania
A Radical Repuclican leader in the senate, from massachusetts
This bill required the majority of former confederate men to take an oath of loyalty; (moderate plan)
What did Lincoln use to block the Wade-Davis Bill?
What were the abandoned lands left to former slaves known as?
Who became the next president following Lincoln's assassination?
Instead of seeing post-war as a "reconstuction," Johnson saw it as a
Laws which severely restricted African American rights were
What was passed in order to protect the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Who was the first president during the reconstruction?
Which party was blamed for starting the Civil War?
Which Act was passed to prevent Johnson from firing Republicans in his cabinet?
This was passed in 1870 in order to sustain African American Suffrage
Who did Johnson fire from his cabinet because he supported the republicans?
What did congress do to Johnson after violating the Tenure of Office Act?
Northeners who moved to the south and were appointed political positions were called
White southerners who worked with republicans and supported reconstruction were called
____ means gaining money illegally through politics
What secret society was formed in the south to drive out union troops and restore democratic south?
Who was president after Johnson?
Taxes on alcohol and tobacco were called
_____ Republicans believed that the wealthy were gaining too much influence in grants administration
Who did the former republicans and democrats nominate to go up against Grant in 1872?
Who was president after Grant?
African Americans who worked on plantations for wages or paid rent for the land they farmed
Tenant farmers eventually became these people, who paid rent in their crops
_____ provided sharecroppers with supplies they needed on credit at high interest rates
Laws that allowed merchants to take a sharecropper's crops to cover debt
______ trapped sharecroppers on land because they could not make enough money to pay off their debts and leave, nor could they declare for bankruptcy