Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- pardon : an official release from punishment for a crime
- radical republicans : a republican who believed that congress should direct reconstruction
- juneteenth : a legal state holiday commemorating the end of slavery
- carpet baggers : northerners in the south working for a reconstruction government.
- ku klux klan : a secret group of white men formed after the civil war that used violence and terrorism against african americans.
- scalawags : a white southerner who supported reconstruction.
- sharecroppers : a farmer who in exchange for labor is provided with seed tools living quarters and food and receives a share of the value of the crop.
- reconstruction : efforts by the north to rebuild the south after the civil war
- freedmen’s bureau _ : a program developed by congress to help freed african americans.
- freedman : a former enslaved person
- compulsory : required
- black codes : laws limiting the rights of african americans passed by southern governors after the civil war.
- provincial : a temporary regional government.
- impeachment : to charge a state official with a crime leading to a trial in the state senate.
- nullify : to cancel
