Across
- 3. Laws that enforced segregation.
- 6. Texas and other southern leaders who tried to restore the South to its prewar days.
- 7. The constitutional amendment which gave suffrage to African American men.
- 10. To bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
- 12. The process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states.
- 15. Texans who supported the Republican Party.
- 17. Former slaves.
- 18. Certificates that represent money the government has borrowed.
- 19. Believed that the U.S. Congress needed to take a greater role in Reconstruction.
- 20. Laws that denied African Americans’ civil rights.
- 23. Northerners who came to Texas after the war.
- 24. The constitutional amendment which abolished slavery.
Down
- 1. This organization urged African Americans to support the Republican Party.
- 2. Farmers who lacked land and necessary supplies and promised a larger part of the crop in return for these items.
- 4. The constitutional amendment which guaranteed citizenship and equal rights to African Americans.
- 5. People who rent land to grow crops.
- 8. June 19th: The day Union General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston in 1865 and issued a proclamation freeing Texas slaves.
- 9. A series of laws that signaled the beginning of Congressional reconstruction.
- 11. A secret society that threatened and murdered African Americans to keep them from expressing their political views.
- 13. An African American delegate of the Constitutional Convention of 1868-69 and leader of the Urban League.
- 14. An organization created by congress which provided help and legal aid to freedpeople.
- 16. Voting rights.
- 21. The individual rights guaranteed to people by the U.S. Constitution.
- 22. The forced separation of people of different races.
