Across
- 2. a government organization or agency
- 5. a test given that must be passed in order to vote in an election
- 6. members of the Republican Party who wanted racial equality in the United States during Reconstruction
- 7. the right to vote
- 11. to officially charge (accuse) a government leader with a crime or misbehavior
- 13. any person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction
- 15. a tax that must be paid in order to vote in an election
- 17. an official pardon (forgiveness) for people who have been convicted of crimes
- 18. a voting law in some states that made men eligible to vote if they or their ancestors (fathers and grandfathers) had been able to vote before 1867
- 19. a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner and pay the owner a portion of their crop harvest as rent
- 20. the action of separating people or things
Down
- 1. the development of industries in a country or region
- 3. people who have been freed from slavery
- 4. an organization that resisted Reconstruction in the South and committed violence against African Americans
- 6. an 1867 federal law that announced southern states would be under U.S. military rule and would have to write new state constitutions, ratify the 14th amendment, and allow African American men to vote
- 8. a federal agency created to assist freedmen in obtaining medical care, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education after the Civil War
- 9. any white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
- 10. laws designed to segregate white and black Americans in public places (schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, playgrounds, etc.)
- 12. laws that limited the rights of African Americans and enforced racial segregation
- 14. a banking crisis that caused an economic depression from 1873 to 1879
- 16. the period of time from 1865–77 when the U.S. government worked to rebuild the southern states