The End of Reconstruction and the Beginning of Jim Crow

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Across
  1. 8. federal government program for restoring the Union and granting equality of citizenship to Black Americans that officially ended as a result of the Compromise of 1877 and the return of Democratic control of Southern State Legislatures
  2. 9. a method that many state and local governments used to get around the 15th Amendment in which marginalized men- especially Black men - were denied their right to vote for not being able to demonstrate the ability to read
  3. 11. 1896 US Supreme Court case that upheld Jim Crow laws throughout the nation by insisting the law could not cure racial bias among individuals and that the 14th Amendment did not prohibit racial segregation
  4. 13. a method that many state and local governments used to get around the 15th Amendment in which marginalized men- especially Black men - were denied their right to vote for not paying a fee upon voter registration
Down
  1. 1. the main reason why Southern Republicans struggled to maintain their control of Reconstruction
  2. 2. the legal reasoning of the US Supreme Court when it ruled that segregation laws were not in violation of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection clause
  3. 3. Republican candidate in the Presidential Election of 1876 who won the election as a result of the Compromise of 1877
  4. 4. laws passed by state legislatures that mandated racial segregation in public
  5. 5. Republican President from 1868 - 1876 whose administration was plagued by bribery, fraud, and economic turmoil
  6. 6. one of the most controversial elections in history, and the first time the candidate who won the popular vote did not win the electoral vote
  7. 7. Political event in which US Congress ceded the presidential election to Rutherford B Hayes in exchange for the end of the military occupation of the former Confederate states and other political favors
  8. 10. the ability to run state governments without federal interference
  9. 12. separation of people based on race distinctions that is required by law