Reconstruction crossword

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  1. 2. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and strip the power of Black voters.
  2. 4. this gives The right of citizens of the United States to vote and shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  3. 10. The 17th President of the United States
  4. 11. The people who led efforts to establish civil rights for former slaves and implement emancipation
  5. 13. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
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  1. 1. This states that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
  2. 3. (in the US) a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
  3. 5. Era of the United States after the civil war
  4. 6. What group provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to poor white Southerners and newly freed African Americans.
  5. 7. (especially in the US) charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.
  6. 8. this is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
  7. 9. This person was the The first Black Senator
  8. 12. This bill was the framework for Reconstruction and gave a chance for the Confederate states to get back into the Union