Reconstruction Vocuabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Used by Southern states to restrict voting rights, particularly targeting black voters.
  2. 6. Racist terrorist organization that targeted African Americans
  3. 7. Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to seek political and economic opportunities
  4. 9. System where farmers worked land owned by someone else and split the crops as payment
  5. 10. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party
  6. 12. An organization created to help former slaves and poor people after the Civil War
  7. 13. Laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  8. 14. Constitutional amendment that abolished slaver
Down
  1. 1. A clause in voting laws that exempted people whose grandfathers could vote before 1867
  2. 2. Constitutional amendment that guaranteed equal protection under the law
  3. 4. Laws passed in Southern states to limit the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
  4. 5. Constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
  5. 8. Period after the Civil War when the United States tried to rebuild and reunite the country
  6. 11. A tax that had to be paid before voting, often used to prevent African Americans from voting