Across
- 2. to bring about an accusation against a public official of wrongdoing in office
- 9. name for northerners who moved South to improve their economic or political situation
- 11. legislation making it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote
- 13. the secret society formed in the South with the intention of promoting white supremacy
- 14. law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens
- 15. TN statesman that became president after the assassination of Lincoln
- 16. laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities
- 17. the period during which the federal government controlled the states that had seceded from the Union during the Civil War
- 18. ___Amendment that guarantees equality under the law for all citizens
Down
- 1. a system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop
- 3. General who helped the Union win the Civil War; later becomes 18th president
- 4. the agreement by which Hayes wins the 1876 presidential election in exchange for all remaining federal troops in the South be removed
- 5. 19th president; oversaw the withdrawal of the remaining federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction
- 6. a group of Republican political leaders dedicated to imposing harsh conditions on the states that had seceded from the Union during the Civil War
- 7. ___Amendment that forbids any state to deny voting rights based on race or color
- 8. Southern politicians who worked to unite white Southerners to regain power in Congress
- 10. a law that required a majority of prewar voters in Confederate states to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin
- 12. a federal agency created to provide aid for emancipated slaves