Reconstruction Vocab Crossword

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  1. 2. This was an agency of early Reconstruction which assisted freedmen in the South.
  2. 6. This was a tactic used primarily in the South to exploit African Americans and poor white by legally using forced labor for those imprisoned for minor offenses and broad vagrancy laws. (__________ labor)
  3. 8. This was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861-1865); it lasted from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
  4. 9. (______________ Stevens) An ardent abolitionist who championed the rights of blacks for decades—up to, during, and after the Civil War. With other Radical Republicans, he agitated for emancipation, black fighting units, and black suffrage.
  5. 11. This was a faction of American politicians in the Republican Party of the US from around 1854 until 1877. Their primary goal was the immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.
  6. 13. This was the President of the US following the assassination of Lincoln that opposed many of the measures of the Radical Republican Congress.
  7. 15. This was a racist white supremacist group that used fear tactics to scare, harm, and even kill Southern blacks and white sympathizers or politicians from roughly 1865-1872.
  8. 18. the abilities of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
  9. 19. This was a landmark decision made by the US Supreme Court that codified the constitutional doctrine for racial segregation laws and found that as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, African-Americans could be served separately from Whites.
  10. 20. A discriminatory practice that required paying a fee to vote; the measures effectively disenfranchised many poor whites and poor African Americans at the time.
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  1. 1. This Reconstruction amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.
  2. 2. This Reconstruction Era amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to the treatment of freedmen following the war.
  3. 3. (Southern ____________) In the 19th century, they defended slavery in the United States and promoted its expansion into the Western United States against the Free Soil opposition in the Northern United States.
  4. 4. This was the President of the United States from 1869-1877 and former U.S. General during the American Civil War. He supported the protection of freed blacks following the Civil War but differed on his views from some Radical Republicans.
  5. 5. laws that criminalize wandering around without a clear means of financial support or employment. (____________ laws)
  6. 7. This was a policy that took place mostly in the South and some other states in which public facilities and organizations were legally separated by race. It is best known by the phrase 'separate but equal'.
  7. 10. This Reconstruction Era amendment prohibits the federal and state gov'ts from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
  8. 12. the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. (Abraham ______________)
  9. 14. These were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free and freed blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.
  10. 16. These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the US until the mid-1960s.
  11. 17. A discriminatory practice that required evidence of the ability to read to vote; the measures effectively disenfranchised many poor whites and African Americans at the time. (__________ tests)