Unit 4 Vocabulary Reconstruction
Across
- 2. gave African Americans citizenship and forbade discrimination and Black Codes
- 4. the first African American Senator
- 5. guaranteed all citizens regardless of color, access to accommodations, theaters, public schools, churches and cemeteries
- 7. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connection
- 11. wanted to reduce state debts
- 13. was a government program that assisted a former slaves and poor while in the south
- 14. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body
- 16. a person who behaves badly but in and amusingly mischievous rather than harmful
- 19. granted African Americans men the right to vote
- 20. (KKK) hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda
- 21. a southern democrat, became President with the assassination of Lincoln under Johnson’s Plan
Down
- 1. the belief that white people constitute a dupe riot race and should therefore dominate society
- 3. abolished slavery in the U.S.
- 6. confederate states that could be readmitted to the union when 10 percent of its states voters swore allegiance to the union
- 8. proposed that Congress, not the president, be responsible for reconstruction and that the majority, not the 10 percent of a states voters had to swear allegiance to the union before rejoining the U.S.
- 9. oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the civil war
- 10. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. including former enslaved people. “Equal protection of the laws”
- 12. the effort to reintegrate southern states from confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States
- 15. restricted black peoples rights to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
- 17. gave the right to vote
- 18. unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election