NC American History 1 Ben Childers

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Across
  1. 1. Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans
  2. 5. unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued
  3. 8. a crime done while in office Congress will vote on whether or not to impeach the President. impeach a judge.
  4. 9. American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator
  5. 11. commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan
  6. 12. 19th U.S. President
  7. 17. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
  8. 22. prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote
  9. 23. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  10. 24. 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869
  11. 25. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
Down
  1. 2. the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War
  2. 3. an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of New York
  3. 4. a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
  4. 6. a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party
  5. 7. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
  6. 10. was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
  7. 13. post-Civil War period of U.S. history, law forbidding the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent.
  8. 14. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
  9. 15. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
  10. 16. unsuccessful attempt by Radical Republicans and others in the U.S.
  11. 18. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States
  12. 19. informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
  13. 20. person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
  14. 21. a person who farms rented land.