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2. A clause that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before reconstruction began on exception to a law based on preexisting circumstances.
4. Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedom and enabeling plantation owners to exploit African American workers.
5. Settling by agreement or coming together again.
6. Putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob.
7. A group of persons directed to perform some duty.
10. A person freed from slavery
12. Name given by former confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican reconstruction of the South.
13. The granting of pardon to a large number of persons; protection from prosecution for an illegal act.
15. A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level.
16. System in farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and recieves a share of the crop.
17. Dishonest or illegal actions

1. The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil war
3. The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group.
5. Extreme
8. To end separation of different races and bring into equal membership in society.
9. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office.
11. Name given to Northern white who moved South after the Civil war and supported the republicans.
14. Farm crop raised to be sold for money.
18. To overturn or defeat, as a bill proposed in Congress
19. A tax of fixed amount per person that had to be paid before a person could vote.