Reconstruction
Across
- 10. gave citizenship to the former slaves.
- 12. freed the slaves.
- 13. Southern laws that limited African American rights after the Civil War.
- 14. Had to pay a tax in order to vote.
- 16. Unflattering nickname for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of struggling Southerners in order to make money.
- 17. 1867 act which divided the South into five military districts. States had to approve the 14th Amendment and give blacks suffrage.
- 18. Designed to allow illiterate whites. to vote while preventing illiterate African Americans from voting.
- 19. Secret Society formed in the South after the Civil War to reestablish white superiority.
Down
- 1. Supreme Court Case that legalized segregation and said "separate but equal" is fair.
- 2. right to vote for former slaves (men only).
- 3. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction that allowed state governments in the South to form a new government if ten percent of the population swore loyalty to the United States.
- 4. Laws that enforced segregation between blacks and whites.
- 5. Government agency during Reconstruction with the goal of helping freedmen.
- 6. Time period after the Civil War when the South worked to rebuild and the US government worked to reunite the country.
- 7. had to pass a test in order to vote.
- 8. Men and women who had previously been slaves.
- 9. Members of Congress who helped freedmen gain rights during Reconstruction.
- 11. Person who rents a plot of land and farms it and pays the person a share of their crop as rent.
- 15. Legally Separated people by race.