Reconstruction Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. the official power to make legal decisions and judgments
  2. 3. Reconstruction proposed by the Radical Republicans, blamed the south and wanted retribution for causing the civil war
  3. 6. power of the federal courts to decide if laws are constitutional
  4. 8. proposed by President Johnson was more generous to the south than the other plans
  5. 9. laws that restricted freedmen's rights
  6. 11. an official governmental forgiveness of a crime
  7. 12. given to blacks in the south to keep them from being able to vote
  8. 15. a person with certain rights and duties under a government
  9. 16. racial segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities were equal for both races
  10. 19. the effort by the federal government to repair damage in the south caused by the civil war and to restore the southern states to the union
  11. 20. system of farming in which a farmer rented land to a farm from a large farm
  12. 23. a group in government after the civil war that was committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment
  13. 25. the right to vote
  14. 26. An insulting nickname for a Northern Republican who moved to the South after the Civil War
  15. 28. the unfair treatment of a group of people compared with another group
  16. 29. the separation of the races
  17. 30. were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  18. 31. granted citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the US including former slaves
  19. 32. a formal change to adding or subtracting from the US Constitution
  20. 34. the right to vote not denied by race
Down
  1. 2. President Lincoln's plan for reconstruction that readmitted southern states once a percentage of voters swore on oath to the union
  2. 4. charge a public official with wrongdoing in office
  3. 5. abolished slavery
  4. 7. the public property and services that a society uses such as roads, buildings, and public supplies
  5. 10. working a portion of a planters land and receiving a share of the crop as payment
  6. 13. the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person
  7. 14. 16th president of the US was assassinated in Ford's Theater just after the civil war
  8. 17. An insulting nickname for a white southern Republican following the Civil War
  9. 18. a set of rights that are designed to protect individuals from unfair treatment under the law
  10. 21. approval of an amendment
  11. 22. agreement to give Hayes the presidential election in return for removing federal troops from the south...
  12. 24. an emancipated slave
  13. 27. special fee that must be paid before a person can vote
  14. 33. voter approval implied when a politician wins an election