Standard 10 Vocabulary
Across
- 4. If 10% of voting population in each seceding state took an oath of allegiance and followed Emancipation Proclamation, they could return to the Union
- 5. Carpetbaggers were northerners who went south after the Civil War; Scalawags were southerners who supported the policies of Reconstruction
- 6. Ku Klux Klan created by veterans of Confederate Army; Advocated White Supremacy
- 7. Impeached because he violated the Tenure Office Act; Removed Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War
- 8. farm worker who pays rent with a portion of crop he raises
- 9. First African American to serve in the US Senate (Mississippi 1870-1871)
- 11. Founded to educate African American men in theology and education
- 12. Federal gov’t agency that aided freed slaves during Reconstruction
- 13. Wanted to punish the South and protect civil rights of African Americans
- 14. workers live on the farms they work on in order to build capital
Down
- 1. Civil Rights Amendments; 13th abolished slavery, 14th provided citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., 15th amendment gave African American males right to vote
- 2. Andrew Johnson issued pardons to Confederate leaders, returned confiscated property and undermined the Freedmen’s Bureau
- 3. Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War to restrict African Americans’ freedom
- 5. Awarded Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential election of 1876 on premise that he remove federal troops from the South.
- 10. Government action to return the South back to normal as soon as possible following the end of the Civil War