Reconstruction Crossword

Faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
Bill passed by Congress in opposition to President Lincoln's lenient plan for reunification of the United States.
A U.S. federal government agency established in 1865
Laws that had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
States that anybody born in the United States is a citizen
Any citizen may vote
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce
secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups
financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America
19th president of the United States
deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election
power of a constituent part of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been decentralized to it by the central government