Chapter 11: The Politics of Rebuilding

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Across
  1. 2. doctor who tended to the injured leg of Booth
  2. 3. a Union army general from Pennsylvania who moved to Arkansas, became governor and was effective in limiting the success of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas after the war
  3. 8. the Washington, DC location of President Lincoln's assassination
  4. 11. native southerners who supported the Republican government
  5. 13. the location of mines in Johnson County with horrible working conditions where prisoners, who were used for labor, had a strike.
  6. 14. a coconspirator of John Wilkes Booth who had been assigned to kill Vice President Johnson, but did not follow through.
  7. 15. name adopted by the Democrats to distinguish themselves from the “radical” Republicans during and after the Civil War
  8. 16. small groups or segment of the population, often with a special cause
  9. 18. harsh measures imposed by the US Congress upon the South following President Lincoln's and Johnson's unsuccessful "soft" approaches
  10. 19. a frame who rents of does not own land, who is loaned necessary supplies such as shelter, tools, and equipment to work the land, and receives a portion (or share) of the profit from the crop after paying fees to the landowner.
  11. 20. a Methodist preacher who formed a Republican faction opposing Powell Clayton and his followers, which included Elisha Baxter, in the Arkansas governor’s race of 1872
  12. 22. norhterners who moved south after the Civil War, presumably to get rich. However, some were teachers of agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau
  13. 23. a guest of the Lincolns in their box at Ford's Theatre the evening of Lincoln's assassination
  14. 25. Arkansas’s governor in 1874, he was also a US senator, US attorney general, and had a distinguished record of service to his state.
  15. 26. an earthen wall extended a river’s natural banks upward to contain high water in order to avoid floods
  16. 27. the US government's plans to rebuild the South following the Civil War
  17. 28. positive attitude or spirit
  18. 29. an Arkansas Unionist who was a Powell Clayton follower in the group called the “regular Republicans” who ran for governor in 1872
Down
  1. 1. made blacks citizens of the United States and prevented states from denying the rights of any citizen
  2. 4. a secret group organized to harass and harm black citizens and to obstruct their participation in society
  3. 5. armed conflict after1872 governor’s election when results were thought to be unfair
  4. 6. to accuse a person of improper conduct in office. In the United States, the president can only be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
  5. 7. the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
  6. 9. a group of Democrats who called themselves “Redeemers” because they had freed the state from the Radical Republicans. They wanted to promote industry in Arkansas, but kept taxes too low to help schools
  7. 10. sworn loyalty to the United States both prior to the Civil War and following the war; effectively excluded all ex-Confederates from voting during Reconstruction
  8. 12. an accomplice of Booth, she kept supplies for him in her inn
  9. 17. a small, armed battle
  10. 21. a Booth accomplice who stabbed Secretary of State Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot, but failed to kill him
  11. 24. first, beginning, or opening, as in the first speech of a newly elected official