Ch. 17 Reconstruction Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
  2. 8. granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States
  3. 12. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or previous condition of servitude
  4. 13. Any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
  5. 14. After the disputed Presidential Election of 1876, Congress declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner, but Republicans promised to withdraw remaining troops from Southern states & no longer attempt to reshape Southern states; marked the end of Reconstruction as Democrats regained control of the South
  6. 15. A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
Down
  1. 1. first African American senator
  2. 2. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
  3. 3. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  4. 5. Civil War general who became president in 1869
  5. 6. 17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached
  6. 7. 26 year old actor and Southern sympathizer, assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  7. 9. Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
  8. 10. declared that all persons born in the US were citizenship, that all citizens were entitled to equal rights and their rights were protected by due process
  9. 11. officially made slavery illegal in all of the United States