Reconstruction Crossword

4. Those who favored taking drastic measures against the Southern states after the Civil War.
5. Laws passed by Southern states to restrict African Americans' freedoms and opportunities.
7. To charge a politician with misconduct or crimes.
10. Abraham Linoln's reconstruction plan which stated that a Southern state could rejoin the Union if 10% of its voters took a vow of loyalty.
13. The legal separation of races.
14. A farmer who rents a piece of land from the owner and pays back with a portion of their harvest.

1. A reading test given that had to be passed in order to vote. This was used to prevent ex-slaves who hadn't attended school from voting.
2. A secret society of white southerners who threatened violence against newly freed African Americans.
3. The time period when the United States was rebuilt after the Civil War.
6. A recently freed slave.
8. A Northern person who went to the South to profit off of Reconstruction.
9. An office established after the Civil War to help newly freed slaves and poor whites adjust to life after the war.
11. A tax that had to be paid in order to vote. They were used during Reconstruction to keep poor African Americans from voting.
12. Racial segregation laws passed between 1876 and 1965 in certain states, preventing African Americans from using certain facilities.