Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. — A political agreement that helped end Reconstruction and led to the removal of federal troops from the South.
  2. 3. A term used by Southern opponents for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
  3. 5. The president who began plans for Reconstruction before his assassination.
  4. 6. Laws and practices that enforced racial segregation and discrimination, especially in the South.
  5. 8. Prohibited denying a man the right to vote based on race.
  6. 10. A federal agency that helped formerly enslaved people with education, jobs, food, and legal assistance
  7. 11. The forced separation of people by race in schools, businesses, transportation, and other parts of society.
  8. 15. Formerly enslaved AfricanAmericans who gained their freedom after the Civil War.
  9. 16. — The period when the former Confederate states were placed under military control and required to meet Reconstruction requirements.
  10. 18. — A violent attack in Louisiana in eighteen seventy-three in which armed white men killed Black residents and Republican
  11. 19. Granted citizenship and equal legal protection to people born in the United States.
  12. 20. — A white supremacist organization that used violence and intimidation against African Americans and their supporters.
Down
  1. 1. The U.S. president who became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and led the country during the early years of Reconstruction.
  2. 4. Southern laws designed to limit the freedom and rights of African Americans after the Civil War
  3. 7. A system in which farmers rented land from landowners and paid rent with money.
  4. 9. The period after the Civil War when the United States worked to rebuild the South and establish rights for formerly enslaved people.
  5. 12. Ended slavery in the United States.
  6. 13. A term used by Reconstruction opponents for white Southerners who supported the Republican Party.
  7. 14. A farming system in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in exchange for part of the crops.
  8. 17. Republicans in Congress who pushed for strong protections and political rights for formerly enslaved people