Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 4. a tax required before a person can vote.
  2. 5. Something applied or created based on authority.
  3. 7. expect or look ahead
  4. 10. a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.
  5. 12. the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
  6. 13. a government pardon
  7. 14. offering a choice
  8. 15. a secret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
  9. 17. an agreement by republican presidential candidate Ruther B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876.
  10. 19. in the post-reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.
  11. 21. the men and women who had been enslaved
  12. 22. to make use of
  13. 26. the rebuilding of the south after the Civil War
  14. 28. to intervene in order to stop or change something
  15. 29. an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.
  16. 30. an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race.
Down
  1. 1. a white southerner who supported the republicans during Reconstruction.
  2. 2. an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
  3. 3. to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public figure.
  4. 6. for a particular purpose
  5. 8. a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.
  6. 9. a term used to describe the south in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building industry
  7. 11. an 1896 court case in which Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
  8. 16. an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights.
  9. 18. a legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
  10. 20. an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refuse to ratify the fourteenth amendment
  11. 23. ability or capacity
  12. 24. laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south.
  13. 25. an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War
  14. 27. well known for some bad quality or effect