Unit 4 Vocabulary Crossword

2. Amendment that granted citizenship to African Americans
5. White Southern Republicans who supported the North during the war
8. A southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union
9. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens,without regard to race, color, or previous condition
12. First African American Senator ever, he represented Mississippi.
13. To reject or prohibit actions and laws of other government officials
14. Republican who ran against Tilden in the 1876 election and was inaugurated in exchange for the conditions of the Compromise of 1877
15. Discriminatory laws that only applied to African Americans
17. Bill It stated that at least 50% of eligible voters of the Southern Confederate states had to vote and take oath of allegiance to the Union in order to be readmitted
20. Amendment that officially banned slavery in the US
21. process of reuniting the country and rebuilding the South after the Civil War

1. Northern Republicans who went to the South to make money and rebuild
3. The right to vote, especially in a political election
4. Created to help former slaves; provided support for the poor in the South, especially education
6. An agreement between Republicans & Democrats that ended reconstruction
7. Amendment that gave voting rights to African American men
10. Southern white democrats who worked to regain control of the state government after the civil war
11. To ensure people weren’t being discriminated against in public areas because a white still weren’t expecting African Americans as equals
16. Succeeded Lincoln as president; he supported abolition
18. Belief or theory that white people are superior to other people, and should therefore have greater power, authority and status
19. Terrorist organization formed by former Confederate soldiers; capitalized of fear of anything changing after the Civil War