Reconstruction
Across
- 3. Segregation laws enacted in the South after reconstruction.
- 5. Accusation against a public official of wrong doing in office.
- 6. American politician who was U.S. representative and senator from Mississippi.
- 7. Political agreement that allowed california to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular soverengity in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law.
- 8. Amendment adresses citizenship rights and equal protection of laws.
- 10. Government of 11 southern states tht eceded from the united states and fought against the union in the civil war.
- 17. Machine invented in 1793 to seperate the cottom fiber from the seeds.
- 18. Segregation imposed by law.
- 19. Organization that promotes hatred and descrimintion against specific ethnic and religious groups.
Down
- 1. Reformer who sought to end slavery.
- 2. Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.
- 4. Supreme court ruling stating that slaves were not citizens, congress had no jurisdiction over slavery.
- 9. Principle in which the people are the only source of government power.
- 11. Congressman who advocate full citizenship rights for African American along with harsh reconstruction policy toward the south.
- 12. 16th president of the United States.
- 13. Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers.
- 14. 17th president of the United states.
- 15. Abolished slavery in the United States and provides "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude".
- 16. Program Implented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the south caused by the civil war.