Reconstruction Crossword

3. restrictive laws to limit freedom of African Americans
6. economic crisis set off by the collapse of the two largest employers
8. a hate organization that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda
9. 19th president who oversaw the end of reconstruction and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War
12. amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
14. type of farming in which families rent a piece of land from a landowner
15. required all 50 states's white males to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union

1. a deal informally arranged among US congressmen that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election
2. popular name for the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
4. derogatory term for a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
5. the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens
7. amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US - including former slaves
10. political party who dedicated their time to emancipating slaves and equal treatment of all
11. farming, when landowners contribute their land while tenants contribute their labor
13. Derogatory term for southerners that supported the Reconstruction policies and efforts after the Civil War.