Reconstruction
Across
- 5. The victims who were given rights in the civil rights act (2 words)
- 8. The compromise that solved the electoral dispute for the 1877 election (3 words)
- 9. The US Attorney General under Lincoln (2 words)
- 12. Governor of New York from 1863-1864 (2 words)
- 18. The bill that opposed Lincoln’s, which said that at least 50% of all voters in a former Confederate state must swear allegiance in order to be readmitted into the Union (3 words)
- 20. Former US representative (2 words)
- 22. This is an official pardon granted to people who have commited political offenses (1 word)
- 25. The right to vote (1 word)
- 26. The smaller group in the US legislature
- 27. A tax levied upon those who wanted to vote (2 words)
- 28. A prominent black senator and pastor after the Civil War (2 words)
- 31. A person aligned with the southern aggressor in the American Civil War (1 word)
- 32. A group of white southerners who sought to redeem racial superiority and racist policies (1 word)
- 35. To split into smaller sections (1 word)
- 36. The amendment declaring slavery unlawful (2 words)
- 37. Allowed all people to vote (2 words)
- 39. The act which pivoted America away from silver and towards the Gold Standard for currency (3 words)
- 40. An important political party of the late 19th century during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1 word)
- 41. The act which prohibited discrimination against African-Americans in public (3 words)
Down
- 1. A famous white abolitionist who founded the Anti-Slavery society (3 words)
- 2. The man who became president after the death of Abraham Lincoln (2 words)
- 3. Lincoln's ambassador (2 words)
- 4. Allowed Africans to own and run businesses (2 words)
- 6. An endearing term for a politician that tried to get influence in a region (1 word)
- 7. The assassin of Abraham Lincon
- 8. The senator who was beaten with a cane over his speech opposing another senator (2 words)
- 10. The Northern body in the American Civil War (1 word)
- 11. A set of racist and separating policies which sought to affirm white dominance in the South (2 words)
- 13. White southerners who supported reconstruction policies after the Civil War (1 word)
- 14. Vice president of the Confederate States of America and former governor of Georgia (2 words)
- 15. A political party founded by Henry Clay (1 word)
- 16. President of the United States from 1877-1881 (2 words)
- 17. The political group Identified with a donkey (1 word)
- 19. A group targeting minorities in the United States (3 words)
- 21. An incredibly influential black abolitionist, social reformer, and activist who visited the White House several times (2 words)
- 23. This gave legal rights to african americans (2 words)
- 24. The separation of people based on race (1 word)
- 29. An agency that assisted newly freedmen in the South during Reconstruction (2 words)
- 30. The era following the American Civil War (1 word)
- 33. The plan proposed by Lincoln which stated that a state could be admitted into the Union only after 10% of its voters swore allegiance to the Federal government (3 words)
- 34. The act which removed most penalties imposed on Confederate commanders and politicians (3 words)
- 38. The first Civil Rights act (3 words)