Vocabulary for lessons 1, 2, and 3

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Across
  1. 6. A pardon given by the government.
  2. 7. Southern laws the limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
  3. 9. Men and women who had been formerly enslaved.
  4. 11. Members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy plantation owners and ensure freedmen the right to vote.
  5. 12. An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War.
  6. 13. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1868 which guaranteed equal protection of the laws.guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
  7. 14. A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help those who were formerly enslaved.
  8. 15. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1865, banning slavery throughout the US.
Down
  1. 1. A secret society organized in the south after the Civil War to reinforce white supremacy through violence.
  2. 2. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War was over.
  3. 3. A white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction.
  4. 4. To bring charges of grave wrongdoing against a public official.
  5. 5. 1867 law that would not allow southern states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment return to the Union.
  6. 8. Someone who rents a plot of land from someone else and farms it in exchange for a share in the crop it yields.
  7. 10. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1869 prohibiting any state from forbidding African Americans to vote because of their race.