Ch 15 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Amendment granting African American men the right to vote.
  2. 6. Laws dividing the South into military districts and requiring states to guarantee African American voting rights.
  3. 9. Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often to seek political or economic opportunities.
  4. 14. The Reconstruction plan led by Abraham Lincoln and later Andrew Johnson that offered lenient terms for Southern states to rejoin the Union.
  5. 17. Southern Democrats who regained political control and sought to end Reconstruction.
  6. 19. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
  7. 22. A government pardon for people who have committed political offenses, such as supporting the Confederacy.
  8. 23. Secretary of State who arranged the purchase of Alaska.
  9. 24. The period when Congress enforced stricter Reconstruction policies and military rule in the South.
  10. 26. A secret society that used violence and intimidation to oppose African American rights.
  11. 28. process by which a legislative body brings charges against a government official.
  12. 29. Democratic candidate in the disputed election of 1876.
  13. 30. Radical Republican senator who supported equal rights for African Americans.
Down
  1. 1. Reconstruction Also called Congressional Reconstruction; a period when Congress took control of Reconstruction and imposed stricter requirements on Southern states.
  2. 2. The period after the American Civil War during which the United States worked to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved people into society.
  3. 3. A community built around a factory, especially textile mills in the South.
  4. 5. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
  5. 7. Secretary of War whose dismissal by Johnson led to impeachment.
  6. 8. Laws in the South designed to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
  7. 10. Republican who became president after the Compromise of 1877.
  8. 11. Law limiting the president's power to remove certain officeholders without Senate approval.
  9. 12. Lincoln's plan allowing a Southern state to reenter the Union once 10% of its voters swore loyalty to the United States.
  10. 13. Formerly enslaved African Americans who gained freedom after the Civil War.
  11. 15. The vision of a diversified Southern economy based on industry rather than agriculture.
  12. 16. Farmers who rented land and paid rent with a share of their crops.
  13. 18. Members of Congress who wanted stricter Reconstruction policies and full civil rights for African Americans.
  14. 20. Leader of the Radical Republicans in the House who pushed for harsh Reconstruction policies.
  15. 21. Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
  16. 25. A federal agency that provided food, education, and assistance to freedmen after the Civil War.
  17. 27. A stricter Reconstruction plan requiring a majority of white male citizens to swear loyalty before readmission.