Reconstruction Test Review

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Across
  1. 2. believed African Americans should demand full civil, political, and social rights immediately
  2. 5. Civil rights leader and journalist who exposed lynching in America
  3. 9. The constitutional amendment granting citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
  4. 11. Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans after slavery ended
  5. 15. This group in Congress wanted to punish the South and give freedmen full rights
  6. 18. President who took over after Lincoln’s death and opposed many Reconstruction laws
  7. 19. This president’s plan focused on forgiveness and healing after the Civil War
  8. 20. Laws that forced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and public spaces
  9. 21. The Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal” segregation
  10. 22. The 1877 agreement that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South
Down
  1. 1. Became president in the election of 1876
  2. 3. The constitutional amendment guaranteeing voting rights regardless of race
  3. 4. involved the South being divided into five military districts governed by Union generals
  4. 6. Former Confederate general who urged Southerners to reconcile with the North
  5. 7. The first federal relief agency that provided food, schools, and aid to formerly enslaved people
  6. 8. The constitutional amendment that ended slavery
  7. 10. A leader who believed African Americans should gain respect through education and job training
  8. 12. The system where freedmen farmed land and gave a large share of crops as rent
  9. 13. Organization co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight for civil rights through legal action
  10. 14. The secret society that used violence to stop African Americans from voting
  11. 16. law gave African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans and allowed federal troops to enforce those rights
  12. 17. He was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate