Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

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