Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
  2. 7. if offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.
  3. 9. on the other hand took a harsher stance. They wanted the federal government to force change in the South
  4. 11. These laws divide the South into five districts
  5. 13. an agency providing relief for feed people and certain poor people in the south
  6. 14. an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
  7. 17. was a special tax people had to pay before they could vote
  8. 18. or laws that greatly limited the freedom of the African Americans
  9. 19. an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
  10. 20. United states representative
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  1. 1. the process of remitting the former Confederate states to the union
  2. 3. U.S. History. a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit white people to vote while disenfranchising Black people: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants.
  3. 4. 18 president of the United States of America
  4. 5. 17th president of the United states
  5. 6. is the process by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
  6. 8. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
  7. 10. the forced separation of whites and Africans Americans in public places.
  8. 12. process and period of Reconstruction
  9. 15. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
  10. 16. This secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans.