S.S. Ch. 18 Crossword
Across
- 5. a name given to former confederates to southern whites who supported the republican reconstruction of the South
- 7. after the civil war, the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting the former Confederate states into the Union.
- 8. An argument between the white officers and African Americans who served in the Union army turned into a three-day race riot. These riots took place in Memphis, Tennessee, in early May 1866. The riot resulted in the deaths of 46 African Americans and 2 whites. Some 75 people were wounded and 103 buildings were burned—including 4 churches and 8 schools.
- 10. a taxa a person must pay in order to vote
- 11. the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
- 12. Hayes ran against Samuel Tilden, it is important because it lead to the compromise of 1877.
- 15. inability to read or write
- 16. the first African Americans of the United States Senate
- 17. part of southern state constitutions after the Civil War the placed high literacy and property requirements for voters whose fathers and grandfathers did not vote before 1867.
- 18. He was the president during 1865-1869. He claimed that the federal government was exceeding its authority.
Down
- 1. abolished slavery in the United States
- 2. system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop
- 3. putting to death by the illegal action of a mob
- 4. a white southerner who killed Lincoln
- 6. first state to rejoin the Union
- 9. cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric
- 13. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
- 14. granted African American men the right to vote