Reconstruction

5. - a violent post-Civil War secret society founded in 1866 to upend the Black political and social power that was being established during Reconstruction.
8. - state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern US.
9. - the practice when congress initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
11. - established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.
12. - arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

1. - lasted from 1865 to 1877 following the American Civil War.
2. - the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
3. - a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
4. - laws governing the conduct of African Americans.
6. - a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
7. - an area of public land in the West (usually 160 acres) granted to any US citizen willing to settle on and farm the land for at least five years.
10. - fair treatment through the judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.