Reconstruction terms crossword

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  1. 4. laws passed in south that discriminated against freedom
  2. 10. insulting name for white southerners who supported reconstruction efforts
  3. 12. an agency set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people in obtaining relief,land, jobs, fair treatment and education
  4. 13. a holiday celebrated on June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. First celebrated in Texas in 1865, Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 and is now celebrated across the U.S.
  5. 14. military rule imposed on citizens instead of civil law and government.The South was placed under martial law after the Civil War
  6. 16. the freeing of enslaved people by the authority that held them
  7. 17. the practice of leasing inmates to perform forced labor for individuals or private companies
  8. 18. a secret terrorist organization in the U.S. made up of white people who are opposed to people of other races
  9. 19. unfairly treating a person or groups of people differently from other people based on characteristics such as race,age or gender
  10. 20. : 17th President of the U.S., he assumed this role after theassassination of Lincoln,serving 1865-1869
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  1. 1. appointed Governor during Reconstruction under martial law and later elected Governor, serving from 1870-1874
  2. 2. an insulting word for northerners who moved to the south after the war
  3. 3. a voting qualification under the 15th Amendment that required a person to pay a tax in order to register to vote
  4. 5. a system of agriculture in which a landowner allowed a tenant farmer to use land in exchange for a share of the
  5. 6. the post Civil War period from 1865-1876. The U.S. readmitted the southern state to the Union, rebuilding the nation after the Civil War
  6. 7. 18th President of the U.S. elected in 1868, he campaigned on his Civil War experience as commanding general of the Union forces
  7. 8. gave voting rights to all African American men
  8. 9. a person freed from enslavement
  9. 11. a promise or oath required of all who fought or aided the Confederacy, promising to never fight against the U.S.
  10. 15. 16th President of the U.S., serving during the Civil War. He emancipated enslaved people, and was assassinated in 1865.