Across
- 2. - Laws that were passed after Reconstruction ended to discriminate against African Americans
- 7. The practice of forcing people of different racial groups to be separate
- 8. organization established to restore political power to the pre-civil war whites in the South
- 9. Compromise of 1877
- 13. a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized segregation so long as everything was equal
- 15. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
- 17. Banned slavery in the United States
- 18. A test given to African Americans to prove they could read before they would be allowed to vote.
- 19. a pardon to a group of people
Down
- 1. Gave citizenship to everyone born in the United States
- 3. a farming system used to keep former slaves as free or cheap labor
- 4. enslaved people who had been freed by the war
- 5. The time of rebuilding in the south after the Civil War
- 6. A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
- 10. The right to vote regardless of race
- 11. An organization that gave supplies to former slaves.
- 12. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War to exploit the post-war South.
- 14. A law that required voters to pay before they were allowed to vote.
- 16. Southern whites who had opposed secession
