Reconstruction
Across
- 4. a tax required before a person can vote.
- 5. Something applied or created based on authority.
- 7. expect or look ahead
- 10. a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.
- 12. the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
- 13. a government pardon
- 14. offering a choice
- 15. a secret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
- 17. an agreement by republican presidential candidate Ruther B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876.
- 19. in the post-reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.
- 21. the men and women who had been enslaved
- 22. to make use of
- 26. the rebuilding of the south after the Civil War
- 28. to intervene in order to stop or change something
- 29. an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.
- 30. an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race.
Down
- 1. a white southerner who supported the republicans during Reconstruction.
- 2. an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
- 3. to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public figure.
- 6. for a particular purpose
- 8. a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.
- 9. a term used to describe the south in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building industry
- 11. an 1896 court case in which Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
- 16. an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights.
- 18. a legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
- 20. an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refuse to ratify the fourteenth amendment
- 23. ability or capacity
- 24. laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south.
- 25. an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War
- 27. well known for some bad quality or effect