Across
- 1. Laws targeting African Americans that denied basic rights and freedoms.
- 5. Laws that focused on separating Blacks and Whites after Plessy v. Ferguson 1896.
- 8. Northerners who moved to the South following the Civil War
- 11. A group that terrorized African Americans and Radical Republicans in the south after the Civil War
- 12. Officials could make anyone take a test that was purposely confusing and was created in order to allow officials to pass people they like and fail people they did not like.
- 13. What group was responsible for the Colfax Massacre in which a group of white men stormed a courthouse in Louisiana and sought to overthrow the mostly black elected government
- 15. System of farming in which farmers rent land, seeds, and tools, paying for these things with a share of the crops
- 17. Abolished indentured servitude and the practice of slavery in the United States
- 18. Granted suffrage to African Americans males
Down
- 2. White Southerners who worked with Northerners, and who joined the Republican party, following the Civil War
- 3. Separation of people based on race
- 4. Federal agency that was designed to help formerly enslaved people following the Civil war
- 6. Period of rebuilding the South following the Civil War
- 7. A requirement that would prevent anyone from voting, whose grandfather also did not have the right to vote. Purposely created to target formerly enslaved people and their descendants.
- 9. Members of the republican party that pushed for laws that would give African Americans more equality in America, like the 14th & 15th Amendment
- 10. Granted full U.S. citizenship to formerly enslaved people
- 14. A white supremacist militia terrorist group that operated in N. & S Carolina after the Civil War
- 16. Voting tax that was required in some Southern states