Unit 9 Reconstruction Vocabulary Cross word
Across
- 5. Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.
- 6. Examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights.
- 8. Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
- 9. Lincoln's plan the allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the united states.
- 10. Government Agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.
- 11. Uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the civil war.
- 12. An 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who volunteered to fight for the confederacy.
- 13. An 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation.
- 15. Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south.
- 17. southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the civil war.
Down
- 1. Secret Society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
- 2. The United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era
- 3. Members of the congress during Reconstruction, who wanted to ensure the freemen received the right to vote.
- 4. An 1869 amendment to the united states Constitution that forbids any state to deny African American the right to vote because of race.
- 7. An 1868 Amendments addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
- 14. Many whites felt that any southerner who helped Republican were traitor. They called the white Southerner Republicans this.
- 16. Tax required before person can vote.