Reconstruction Crossword Connor Wolf

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  1. 3. a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.
  2. 4. These laws divided the South into five districts.
  3. 6. he act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals
  4. 7. Thaddeus Stevens was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
  5. 10. The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War.
  6. 12. The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of
  7. 15. is the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
  8. 17. or laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
  9. 18. or sharing the crops. Land owners provided land tools and supplies and sharecroppers provided the labor.
  10. 21. the forced separation of white and african americans in public places.
Down
  1. 1. was a special tax people had to pay before they could vote.
  2. 2. the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
  3. 5. Offered southerners amnesty or official pardon for all illegal acts supporting the relibans
  4. 8. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
  5. 9. an agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the south
  6. 11. Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to
  7. 13. A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments to immigrants.
  8. 14. Radicals led efforts after the war to establish civil rights for former slaves and fully implement emancipation.
  9. 16. Secret society opposed civil rights particularly suffrage, for African Americans.
  10. 19. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
  11. 20. Ulysses S. Grant was an American politician and military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.