S.S. Ch. 18 Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. a name given to former confederates to southern whites who supported the republican reconstruction of the South
  2. 7. after the civil war, the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting the former Confederate states into the Union.
  3. 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.
  4. 10. a taxa a person must pay in order to vote
  5. 11. the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
  6. 12. Hayes ran against Samuel Tilden, it is important because it lead to the compromise of 1877.
  7. 15. inability to read or write
  8. 16. the first African Americans of the United States Senate
  9. 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.
  10. 18. He was the president during 1865-1869. He claimed that the federal government was exceeding its authority.
Down
  1. 1. abolished slavery in the United States
  2. 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. 3. putting to death by the illegal action of a mob
  4. 4. a white southerner who killed Lincoln
  5. 6. first state to rejoin the Union
  6. 9. cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric
  7. 13. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
  8. 14. granted African American men the right to vote