Across
- 2. A person who has been freed from slavery
- 3. A general pardon for an offence against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution
- 8. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
- 9. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lived and other resources to obtain complete victory
- 10. Military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender
- 11. person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
Down
- 1. An action by the house of representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the united states of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
- 4. a derogatory term for southerners who were working with the north to buy up land from desperate southerners
- 5. laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
- 6. Laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
- 7. A northerner who went to the south immediately after the civil war; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in northern states