Vocabulary for Lessons 1, 2, and 3

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Across
  1. 3. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1869 prohibiting any state from forbidding African Americans to vote because of their race.
  2. 5. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1865, banning slavery throughout the US.
  3. 7. A white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction.
  4. 9. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War was over.
  5. 11. A pardon given by the government.
  6. 12. Southern laws the limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
  7. 13. A secret society organized in the south after the Civil War to reinforce white supremacy through violence.
  8. 15. An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1868 which guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
  2. 2. Members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy plantation owners and ensure freedmen the right to vote.
  3. 4. A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help those who were formerly enslaved.
  4. 6. To bring charges of grave wrongdoing against a public official.
  5. 8. Men and women who had been formerly enslaved.
  6. 10. Someone who rents a plot of land from someone else and farms it in exchange for a share in the crop it yields.
  7. 14. 1867 law that would not allow southern states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment return to the Union.