Reconstruction Era
Across
- 2. Laws passed by southern states that limited what Blacks can do.
- 6. Former slaves or poor freedmen working on plantations and giving half of their crops to the owner of the land.
- 10. To bring charges against an elected offical like the President.
- 12. Law that ended slavery.
- 14. Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.
- 15. Group that built schools and helped former slaves.
- 16. A test given to blacks by Southern states to try and stop them from voting.
- 17. To get rid of or end.
Down
- 1. A group that was formed to oppress blacks.
- 3. To come to an agreement where both sides get some of what they want.
- 4. Gave former slaves citizenship.
- 5. To block or stop something.
- 7. The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
- 8. Political group who wanted equal rights for blacks.
- 9. A fee that blacks had to pay to vote.
- 11. Legal segregation
- 13. States cant stop eligible voters from voting.