Across
- 1. A group of officials chosen for a specific responsibility
- 3. A school or college for special training
- 6. The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
- 7. Extreme
- 8. The granting of a pardon to a large number of persons
- 9. To stop temporarily
- 12. To prevent from being involved in something
- 15. The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states to the Union
- 16. A method used to prevent African Americans from voting y requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level
- 18. Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and women, and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers
- 20. The effect or result of an action or event
- 21. Dishonest or illegal actions
Down
- 2. Name given by former Confederates to Southern whites ho supported Republican Reconstruction of the South
- 4. To unite, or to blend into a united whole
- 5. A device that allowed persons to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began
- 8. To become more suited to new conditions
- 10. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
- 11. To reject or defeat something that has already been decided
- 13. A tax a person must pay in order to vote
- 14. Putting to death by the illegal action of a mob
- 17. System of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop
- 19. A loan, or the ability to pay for a good or service at a future time rather than at the time of purchase