Unit 1 Key Terms
Across
- 3. forbid any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 4. Estblished a few weeks before Lincolns death, its goal was to provide food, clothing, health care, and education for both African American and white refugees in the south.
- 7. Vice President of Abraham Lincoln
- 8. During this era the federal government struggled with how to return the eleven southern states to the Union, rebuild the South's ruined economy, and promote the rights of former slaves.
- 9. It guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens.
- 10. to charge a president with wrongdoing in office
Down
- 1. This measure created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them.
- 2. a bill that required the majority of a state's prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin.
- 5. Laws that sought to limit the rights of Afro-Americans and keep them as landless workers.
- 6. Republicans insisted that the confederates had committed crimes by enslaving African Americans and by entangling the nation in war.