Across
- 1. an Arkansas Unionist who was a Powell Clayton follower in the group called the "regular Republicans"
- 3. the abbreviation of the name for radical racist group formed during Reconstruction
- 4. the U.S. government's plan to rebuild the South following the Civil War
- 8. a farmer who rents or does no own land, who is loaned the needed supplies
- 9. to accuse a person of improper conduct in office
- 11. native southerners who support the Republican government
Down
- 1. a Methodist preacher who formed a Republican faction opposing Powell Clayton and his followers
- 2. a small armed battle
- 5. northerners who moves south after the Civil War
- 6. name taken by Democrats who came to power following the Brooks-Baxter war
- 7. first, beginning, or opening, as in the first speech
- 10. positive attitude or spirit
- 12. an earthen wall extending a river's natural banks upward to contain high water