This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Civil War & Reconstruction has 20 clues. Answers range from 7 to 21 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
A group pardon
The first president to ever been assassinated
Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
A Southern sympathizer
A plan to for the southern states to rejoin the Union
States that required blacks the right to vote
Provides public education to freedmen
The president who proposed a relatively lenient plan of Reconstruction
New laws to control African Americans and guaranteed the civil rights of all people
Southern whites who opposed secession
A name given by southerners to northern whites who went South to start businesses or pursue political office
Bringing formal charges against a public official
A personal tax to be paid before voting
A test to see if a person can read and write
Enforced separation of races
A provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
A laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop.
Arrested for sitting in a couch marked “for whites only”
A significant chapter in the history of American civil rights
A plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South