Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 5. The period of rebuilding and readmitting the former Confederate States to the Union
  2. 6. The separation of races in public places after the Civil War
  3. 8. Politicians who wanted the federal government to force change in the South
  4. 12. A secret society that opposed civil rights for African Americans
  5. 13. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
  6. 14. A term used in the South to describe white Southern Republicans
Down
  1. 1. A mob (used to intimidate African Americans in the South) illegally murdering someone, usually by hanging
  2. 2. A landowner provided the land, tools, and supplies to a farmer in exchange for a percentage of the crop
  3. 3. An agency providing relief for freed people and poor people in the South
  4. 4. A test people had to take and pass to be eligible to vote
  5. 7. Northerners who travelled south after the Civil War to help or take advantage of Southerners
  6. 9. A tax that had to be paid in order to vote in an election
  7. 10. Laws that enforce segregation
  8. 11. A series of laws passed by Southern states that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans