Topic 9 crosswords

3. Newly freed slaves after the civil war.
5. To bring charges of serious wrong doing against a public official.
7. Something applied or created based on authority.
8. A government agency intended to help out freed slaves.
9. Members of congress who wanted to break the control of southerners who profit off slavery.
12. A government pardon.
14. This word offers a choice.
16. An uncomplimentary word for people from the north who went south after the civil war.
17. A secret organization trying to reassert white supremacy through force.
18. A law that threw out states that refused to ratify the 14th amendment.
19. Expect or look forward to.

1. An amendment stating that all men will get equal protection of laws.
2. A person who buys a plot of farmland from someone else and forms it in exchange for a cut of the profit.
4. A word describing someone or something of infamy.
6. The ability or capacity to do something.
10. To interfere in order to stop or change.
11. A white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction.
13. Southern laws that limited the rights of blacks shortly after the civil war.
15. The era of rebuilding after the civil war.