Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle By: Tessah Richmond

1. 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
3. they wanted the federal government to force change in the South
5. an American politician and military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
6. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
8. assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments to immigrants
9. Clause- a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices
14. it offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
15. Klan)- a secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans
16. an undertaking by the authorities to take no action against specified offenses or offenders during a fixed period
18. the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the - Union
19. the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869

2. African Americans who stayed on plantations and had to give most of the crops to the land owners
4. laws that divided the South into five districts
7. an agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
10. theforced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
11. the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
12. a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
13. laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
17. a special tax people had to pay before they could vote