The Reconstruction Era Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  2. 4. a white southerner who collaborated with the northern republicans during Reconstruction
  3. 5. offered southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
  4. 6. a period beginning in 1867 when the Republicans, who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction
  5. 7. an agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
  6. 11. a person from the northern states who went South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
  7. 14. a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements
  8. 16. this secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans
  9. 17. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American War
  10. 19. the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
Down
  1. 1. the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union
  2. 2. a special tax that you need to pay in order to vote
  3. 3. the law that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment
  4. 8. 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated
  5. 9. the forced separation of whites and African Americans in public spaces
  6. 10. an assessment to determine a person's ability to read and write that is required in order to vote
  7. 12. one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
  8. 13. laws that limited the freedom of African Americans
  9. 15. someone sharing land with a landowner in exchange for labor
  10. 18. an official pardon