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4. - a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way.
9. - 18th U.S. president.
11. - 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)
13. - (1865-1877) The law that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft a new constitution upholding the Fourteenth Amendment.
14. - a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.
16. - A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Ameiicans from obtaining their civil rights.
18. - an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
19. - President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction.
20. - a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.

1. - a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
2. - United states representative.
3. - Members of Congress who felt that southerners needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union.
5. - An agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South.
6. - Congressional Reconstruction
7. - The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
8. - (1865 - 1877) The period following the Civil War during which the U.S government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states.
10. - The forced separation of people of different races in public places.
12. - laws passed in the southern states during Reconstructing that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans.
15. - A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
17. - their ability to read and write.