Reconstruction Crossword

The _________________ Republicans controlled Congress During Reconstuction.
This organization of white southerners emerged to terrorize African Americans.
Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen in the South.
This organization was formed to help African Americans with food, clothing, healthcare and education,
The _________________ of 1877 was a secret deal that gave the Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency and ended Reconstruction.
Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude.
All people born in the U.S. are citizens and have equal protection under the law.
The president was impeached by Congress for violating the Office of Tenure Act.
Freedmen and poor whites who rented and farmed a plot of land in exchange for a share of crops.
What Congress tried to do to President Johnson during Reconstruction and was one vote shy,
Term for Northerners who went South to profit from Reconstruction.
These were laws meant to keep blacks and whites totally separate in the South.
Term for Southerners who supported the Union's Reconstruction plans and policies.
The strict ____________-_____________ Bill required 50% of the voters of a state to take a loyalty oak.
This abolished slavery in the U.S.
He was elected president in 1876, which brought an end to Reconstruction.
A ______________ tax required a person to pay to vote.
A _____________________ Clause exempted whites from the laws that prevented blacks from voting.
Rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
Legal separation of races
These acts made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote (aka - Ku Klux Klan Acts).
These were white southerners who's main goal was to regain power in Congress.