Reconstruction Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. To withdraw or break away from a group, like when Southern states left the United States.
  2. 8. a war fought between two or more sides within the same country, for example, A war between the Northern and Southern states in the United States (1861-1865).
  3. 10. A fee that people had to pay to vote, which often kept poor people from voting.
  4. 12. The act of ending slavery.
  5. 13. People who were formerly enslaved but are now free
  6. 14. A person from the North who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money and help rebuild the South
  7. 16. To withdraw or break away from a group, like when Southern states left the United States.
  8. 17. A person who is injured or killed in a war or accident.
Down
  1. 1. A system where farmers work land owned by someone else and share the crops with the landowner.
  2. 2. The time after the Civil War when the United States worked to rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves into society.
  3. 4. To set someone free from slavery.
  4. 5. A person who wanted to end slavery.
  5. 6. state and local laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation. This means they created rules that separated Black people from white people in public places like schools, restaurants, and buses.
  6. 7. Laws that restricted the rights of Black people after the Civil War.
  7. 9. A group in Congress that wanted to change the South and help Black people after the Civil War.
  8. 11. A test that people had to pass to show someone could read and write, often used unfairly to limit voting rights.
  9. 15. A person who escapes from the law, especially a runaway slave.