Ch 4 American History

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Across
  1. 2. a system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planters land in return for a share of the crop
  2. 4. the date the Confederates forces surrender at Vicksburg
  3. 7. a veto taking place when Congress adjourns with 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it
  4. 10. a negative term for a Southern white who supported the Republican Party after the Civil War
  5. 11. first and only Confederate president
  6. 15. a radical republican
  7. 18. known as the "KKK"
  8. 20. union war plan by Winfield Scott
  9. 22. capital of Virginia
  10. 24. tax paid to the state, federal, and local government based on income earned over the past year
  11. 25. a law to disqualify African Americans voters by allowing the vote only to men whose fathers and grandfathers had vote before 1866 and 1867
Down
  1. 1. a reading and writing test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans form voting
  2. 3. a sum of money to be paid before a person could vote
  3. 5. abolished slavery
  4. 6. "separate, but not equal"
  5. 8. he created the cotton gin
  6. 9. Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware
  7. 12. warships covered with protective iron plates
  8. 13. laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
  9. 14. the city under siege for 9 months
  10. 16. 16th president; president during the Civil War
  11. 17. a government in which the people rule by their own consent
  12. 19. a negative term for Northern who moved to the South after the Civil War
  13. 20. bloodiest battle of the Civil War
  14. 21. states created laws to segregate blacks from whites in the South, violence against blacks was widespread
  15. 23. photographer during the Civil War