Across
- 3. restrictive laws to limit freedom of African Americans
- 6. economic crisis set off by the collapse of the two largest employers
- 8. a hate organization that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda
- 9. 19th president who oversaw the end of reconstruction and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War
- 12. amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
- 14. type of farming in which families rent a piece of land from a landowner
- 15. required all 50 states's white males to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union
Down
- 1. a deal informally arranged among US congressmen that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election
- 2. popular name for the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
- 4. derogatory term for a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
- 5. the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens
- 7. amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US - including former slaves
- 10. political party who dedicated their time to emancipating slaves and equal treatment of all
- 11. farming, when landowners contribute their land while tenants contribute their labor
- 13. Derogatory term for southerners that supported the Reconstruction policies and efforts after the Civil War.