Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. provided: food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and the poor whites
  2. 4. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
  3. 5. Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction
  4. 6. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
  5. 8. Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes
  6. 10. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
Down
  1. 1. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
  2. 3. After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.
  3. 7. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
  4. 9. A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote