reconstruction crossword
Across
- 5. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
- 6. freed all slaves
- 8. All male former slaves could vote
- 10. Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
- 12. A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War
- 13. allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction
- 16. Bringing together people who were opposed to each other
- 17. A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
- 18. Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to advance their own fortunes
- 19. A secret society created by white southerners that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
Down
- 1. someone who fought for slave's rights
- 2. Law passed that split up Indian Reservation lands among individual Native Americans and promised them citizenship
- 3. Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom
- 4. A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
- 6. Made all former slaves citizens of the United States
- 7. many immigrants lived in these buildings
- 9. the era after the civil war
- 11. the act of uniting or bringing together, especially people of different races
- 14. Federal law that gave land to western states to encourage them to build colleges
- 15. 17th President of the United States