Puzzle

5. The Fifteenth Amendment stated that the right to ____ cannot be denied on account of skin color.
7. _____________ was a Southern tactic to acquire cheap labor from former slaves.
10. ________ gave local governments the power to make their own laws within their own territory even if it defied laws set by the central government.
11. A ______ Farmer is someone who farms on rented land
13. The Wade-Davis Bill was pocket-____ed by Abraham Lincoln, so it never took effect.
14. The Ku Klux Klan believed in _____ supremacy.

1. The __________ Amendment stated that anybody born in America is a citizen of the United States.
2. _____ Codes were laws passed by Southern states to restrict the freedom of African-Americans.
3. Rutherford B. Hayes became President at the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States through a complex __________ of 1877.
4. A carpetbagger was a person from the ________ states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
6. Radical Republicans believed that the ___________ leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War.
8. Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid former ______ in the South during the Reconstruction era.
9. Scalawags were whites from the ________ states who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
12. The _____ of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879.