Reconstruction
Across
- 2. former president of the southern confederate states
- 5. this principle states that all authority of the government relies on the consent of the people
- 7. individual in favor of getting rid of a practice, such as capital punishment, or formerly, slavery
- 9. abolished slavery within the United States
- 10. southern states of the U.S. that fought for the right for slavery
- 14. republican in favor in the emancipation of slaves
- 17. laws put in place after reconstruction in the south to discriminate against African Americans
- 18. granted citizenship to those born in the U.S., as well as freed slaves
- 19. secret group in the south aimed at suppressing newly freed blacks, active several strong years after the civil war
Down
- 1. segregation enforced by law
- 3. legal case in which sought his freedom under the Missouri Compromise
- 4. compromise that abolished slave trade in Washington D.C.
- 6. granted the right for African American men to vote
- 8. established in 1865 to aide former slaves and poor whites after the civil war
- 11. 16th president of the United States
- 12. era after the civil war when laws and policies were reconstructed
- 13. 17th President of the United States
- 15. process in which an official is prosecuted of something unjust, in which this is individual is removed from office
- 16. machine that separates cotton from seeds