Reconstruction Vocab. 1

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Across
  1. 1. A change or addition to the Constitution that once ratified has the same legal power as the original document.
  2. 6. Southerners accused Northerners who came after the Civil War of taking advantage of the south and called them carpetbaggers because of their luggage.
  3. 8. group of Republicans during Reconstruction who were intent on punishing white Southerners for the Civil War.
  4. 12. separation of people of different races
  5. 13. to kill a person (or persons) for political reasons.
  6. 16. These are rights guaranteed by a government to its citizens – usually deals with political and social equality
  7. 17. bring charges against an elected official who is accused of breaking the law - it may or may not result in the official's removal from office.
  8. 18. Federal agency that provided schools, hospitals, medical care, etc. to newly freed slaves.
  9. 21. Supreme Court ruling that said segregation was okay as long as things were “separate, but equal”; legalized segregation
Down
  1. 1. the science and business of producing crops, raising livestock, and general farming
  2. 2. the rebuilding of the southern states after the Civil War
  3. 3. a secret organization in the U.S. formed during Reconstruction that is made up of white people who are opposed to people of other races
  4. 4. the group of people who are responsible for making the laws of the United States
  5. 5. Became President after Lincoln was assassinated, against equal rights for African-Americans, impeached
  6. 7. These were laws passed by southern states during Reconstruction that attempted to restrict the freedom and equality of freed slaves.
  7. 9. President who led the United States during the Civil War, wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, signed the law to create the Transcontinental Railroad, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
  8. 10. system of farming in the South before the Civil War where a large
  9. 11. system of farming in which farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the crops they raise
  10. 14. White Southerners who cooperated with the Republican government in the south during Reconstruction
  11. 15. Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction enforcing segregation.
  12. 18. the term for men, women, and children who were freed from slavery after the Civil War
  13. 19. the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region
  14. 20. to completely and officially end
  15. 22. relating to the countryside