Across
- 4. farmworker chose what crop he would plant and bought his own supplies and then give a share of the crop to the landowner
- 8. made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote
- 9. farmer paid cash rent to a landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop
- 10. created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them
- 13. a time when the federal government tried to get the southern states back to the union
- 16. white men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors
- 18. laws sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them landless workers
- 20. forbidding any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Down
- 1. roamed the countryside, especially at night, burning houses, schools, and churches, and beating, maiming, or killing African Americans and their white allies
- 2. a landowner dictated the crop and provided the sharecropper with place to live, as well as seeds and tools, in return for a “share” of the harvested crop
- 3. separation of the races
- 5. guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens
- 6. required that a majority of a state’s prewar voters swear loyalty to the union before the process of restoration could begin
- 7. Removing federal troops from the south in compromise of Rutherford B. Hayes winning the election of 1876
- 11. people in congress that insisted that the confederates had committed crimes
- 12. Southern white who supported the republican party after the civil war
- 14. process of bringing people of different races, religions, and social classes together
- 15. designed to provide food, clothing, health care, and education for both black and white refugees in the south
- 17. accusation against a public official of wrongdoing in office
- 19. politicians who aimed to repair or “redeem” the south in the eyes of congress