History crossword puzzle
Across
- 2. Some African Americans went back to africa and some went to other parts of the country
- 8. allowing people of different skin color to vote no matter if the used to be a slave
- 11. the action of separating people based on race or gender
- 14. in 1865 were they abolished slavery
- 15. an agency that protected newly feed slaves
- 16. laws enforcing segregation in the southern states
- 17. southern supporters made it were you have to pay to vote and many african americans could not pay this amount so the couldent vote
Down
- 1. the rights guaranteed to people as citizens and show equal treatment under the law
- 3. an unwritten political deal that settled disputes over the 1876 election
- 4. sectioning off states in the south to be different military districts
- 5. One of the electives both did not get the electoral votes needed sto the republicans gave the republican runner 20 points
- 6. took away the political provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, which had barred former Confederates from holding office.
- 7. Number of freed slaves in the country after the civil war
- 8. granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law
- 9. First time southern states voted since 1860 were Ulysses S. Grant ran
- 10. the period of time after the civil war were the southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
- 12. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- 13. laws passed in former confederate states that limit the rights of African Americans