Reconstruction Review

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Across
  1. 4. Rutherford B. Hayes became president of the United States, by removing the remaining federal troops from the South and appointing a Southern Democrat to his cabinet.
  2. 5. Concept that encapsulates the Confederacy's demise and a post-war Southern desire to restore old ways, particularly concerning African Americans' roles and rights.
  3. 8. The association of Southern U.S. states that split away from and fought against the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
  4. 9. Taxes, often placed on imported goods to protect domestic industries
  5. 12. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  6. 16. The Union’s three-part Civil War strategy, designed to capture the confederate capital in Richmond, block southern ports, and control the Mississippi River.
  7. 17. Northerners that moved to the South for economic and political gain.
  8. 19. Discriminatory laws passed mainly in Southern states to deny African Americans equal economic, political, and social treatment.
  9. 21. Declared that African Americans were citizens and deserved the protections that came with that.
  10. 23. Refusal of a President to sign a bill within 10 days of its passage and the adjournment of Congress causes the bill to be rejected.
  11. 25. The withdrawal of a state from a country or nation.
  12. 26. Officially repealed the Missouri Compromise and gave residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery in their territories
  13. 27. Name given to African American soldiers by Native Americans.
  14. 29. This theory argued that the Constitution was an agreement among the states, and therefore states could reject laws they say as unconstitutional
  15. 30. A member of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction who wanted to permanently end slavery and guarantee equal rights for African Americans.
Down
  1. 1. The idea that residents of an area can vote to decide an issue
  2. 2. Within these cases, the Supreme Court declared that the 14th Amendment did not alter traditional federalism, and that many rights of citizens still remained under state control.
  3. 3. Law designed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing up tribal reservation land and giving it to individuals who would become farmers.
  4. 6. Abolished slavery.
  5. 7. Agreement that divided the country in half by dictating that any state lying south of 36°30’ north latitude would be open to slavery and any state above that line would be considered free
  6. 10. The movement of African Americans from the South during the early 1900s.
  7. 11. Bringing charges against a public official.
  8. 13. The lowest point, or bottom; the term was used to describe relations between African Americans and whites in the South between 1877 and 1920.
  9. 14. A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or people involved, or the objectives pursued, especially when the laws of war are disregarded.
  10. 15. Established to assist formerly enslaved individuals in their needs for food, clothing, and shelter, as well as protecting travelers, legalizing marriages, and negotiating work agreements.
  11. 18. To rebuild; referring to the period of 1865-1877 in the U.S. when former confederate states were under control of the federal government.
  12. 20. The 1864 slaughter of over 150 inhabitants of a winter camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho.
  13. 22. Land reserved by the U.S. government for use of Native Americans.
  14. 24. The act of freeing those held captive; in this case it refers to the freeing of slaves
  15. 28. stated that anyone whose father or grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867 was guaranteed the right to vote.