Reconstruction Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. an official act of forgiving people who broke the law
  2. 6. the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
  3. 8. to unjustly keep someone in hardship
  4. 10. the division of people into separate groups based on race or ethnicity
  5. 12. a change or addition to a law or document
  6. 13. to charge the holder of a public office with misconduct
  7. 15. being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful
  8. 16. formally approve a new law or bill
  9. 17. farmers who pay for using a piece of land with a portion of a crop grown on that land
Down
  1. 1. people from the North who went to the South to help newly freed people
  2. 2. the public killing of a person by a group, usually by hanging and without a fair trial
  3. 4. the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint within the law.
  4. 5. official documents of forgiveness
  5. 7. make a deal between different parties where each party gives up part of their demand
  6. 9. a person who believes their race or ethnicity is better than others
  7. 11. bringing people of different races together
  8. 14. the state of being conferred with the rights, obligations, privileges, and duties of a citizen.