Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. Agency established by congress in 1865 to help poor people throught the south
- 4. Farmers who worked land on other peoples farms in exchange for crops.
- 5. Member of United States House of Reps from Pennsylvania
- 9. A person from the Northern States who went to the South to profit from Reconstruction
- 12. Offical Pardon for people that have been convicted of political offences
- 14. The laws that put the Southern States under U.S. military command and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment
- 15. A clause exempting certian classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affection their previous rights, privileges, or practies
- 16. Members of congress who felt that Southern States needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
- 19. Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans
- 20. Military officer who served as 18th President
Down
- 1. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public offical.
- 3. Test that assesse a person's literacy skills given by the goverment.
- 6. A white Southner who collaborated with northern Republicans often for personal profit
- 7. Period of time where Radical Republicans toke control of Reconstruction
- 8. Became President after Abraham Lincoln was assinated
- 10. A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote.
- 11. Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction
- 13. The forced separation of people of different races in public places
- 17. The period following the Civil War when the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and rebuild the Southern states
- 18. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining Civil rights