Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 8. large weapons used in land battles
  2. 10. a tax levied on a person as a prerequisite for voting
  3. 11. in U.S. history, the period immediately following the Civil War
  4. 15. an unfair test some citizens would have to take before voting
  5. 16. one who lacks a permanent home and wanders from place to place
  6. 17. a rascal or troublemaker
  7. 18. amendment, African-American men can now vote
  8. 19. pertaining to the ownership, tenure, or cultivation of land
  9. 20. amendment, granted citizenship to African Americans
  10. 21. to withdraw from a group or a political union
  11. 24. a U.S. bureau made to help African-Americans in society
  12. 25. to murder for pay or for political reasons
  13. 26. all the basic systems that have been created in a country, especially through technology and engineering
  14. 28. a Northerner who went to the South to seek private gain in the aftermath of the American Civil War
  15. 29. one who has been released from slavery
  16. 30. the shutting off of traffic into and out of a place
Down
  1. 1. people who were against slavery
  2. 2. to work (farmland) as a sharecropper, giving a portion of the crop to the landowner
  3. 3. an area of a country, city, or other place used for a particular purpose
  4. 4. to accuse a person in public office of wrong or improper conduct
  5. 5. a secret society founded in Georgia in 1915 that was inspired by the former and uses terrorist tactics to achieve segregation of African-Americans
  6. 6. amendment, abolished slavery
  7. 7. unfair laws made only against African-Americans during Reconstruction
  8. 9. the doctrine that a state is subject to the will of the people who comprise that state
  9. 12. an intense, sometimes excessive, regard for local interests or concerns
  10. 13. having prisoners do manual labor
  11. 14. to give evidence or testimony
  12. 17. in the United States, all rights and powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor denied by it to the states
  13. 22. the eleven southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860 and 186l
  14. 23. a person who is hurt or killed in an accident
  15. 27. a group of states or countries united under a single government