Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Separation of people based on race
  2. 5. Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
  3. 6. Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
  4. 7. Gave African American men the right to vote
  5. 9. White supremacist group that used terror to oppose Reconstruction
  6. 11. A pardon, often used for former Confederates after the war
  7. 12. Group in Congress who wanted to punish the South and protect African American rights
  8. 14. Farming system where landowners provided land and supplies in return for a share of the crop
Down
  1. 1. The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
  2. 3. Gave citizenship and equal protection under the law
  3. 4. Agency that helped newly freed slaves adjust after the Civil War
  4. 8. Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction for political or financial gain
  5. 10. White Southerner who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party
  6. 13. Laws passed in Southern states to restrict the freedom of African Americans