Unit Six Part One Review

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Across
  1. 3. Amendment which protected voting rights for all men regardless of race
  2. 7. The ____ Reconstruction Act was passed by Congress and more or less imposed military occupation on the South
  3. 11. Term meaning the denial of the right to vote
  4. 13. Amendment which granted blacks full citizenship in the United States and in the states in which they lived
  5. 16. The most notorious political corruption in this period, occurred in the city government of New York under the direction of William "Boss" Tweed (2 words, no spaces)
  6. 18. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the South became known as the ____ ____ for the Democratic party (2 words/no space)
  7. 21. The period from 1865 to 1877, which refers to the national government's attempt to rebuild the south after the Civil War
  8. 22. Republican cartoonist who exposed Tweed through his newspaper drawings
  9. 26. Term meaning indictment by the House of Representatives
  10. 28. The most important of the extremist groups who turned to violence and terrorized parts of the South (3 words/no spaces)
  11. 31. Less flattering term used for some industrialists due to their greed for gain and aggressive business practices (2 words/no spaces)
  12. 34. Term used for the industrialists and their efforts to help forge America into a prosperous and productive nation (3 words/no spaces)
  13. 36. NY newspaper editor who ran against Grant for president in 1872
  14. 38. Democratic candidate for president in 1876, who had gained a national reputation by breaking the "Tweed Ring"
  15. 39. A financial collapse called the ___ of '73 touched off a 6 year depression, the worst in the US up to that time
  16. 41. Scandal in which a railroad company padded construction expenses and then paid the excesses to stockholders (2 words/no space)
  17. 42. A Scottish immigrant to Pennsylvania who became a steel giant
  18. 44. Individual who was elected as president in 1868 with the campaign slogan "Let us have peace"
  19. 45. America's first billionaire and founder of Standard Oil Company
  20. 46. Known as the "Commodore", he was a railroad baron
Down
  1. 1. Organization founded in 1865 to provide help to the newly freed slaves (2 words/no space)
  2. 2. The ____ of 1877 was a trade off that allowed Hayes to become president in exchange for the removal of the last federal troops from the South
  3. 4. Individual who formulated the "ten per cent" plan for restoring the South
  4. 5. Splinter group of the Republican party who opposed Grant's reelection in 1872 (2 words/no spaces)
  5. 6. Term meaning the right to vote
  6. 8. Author who unwittingly but fittingly name the postwar era The Gilded Age
  7. 9. Amendment which eliminated the last traces of slavery
  8. 10. Term used by those who wanted to build the South up so that it could match the North in economic and industrial capacity (2 words/no spaces)
  9. 12. Individual from Durham, NC who created a national and an international market for his tobacco products
  10. 14. Group who opposed Lincoln in Congress. They were only a minority, but were highly influential (2 words/no space)
  11. 15. Republican candidate for president in 1876 who ultimately ended up being chosen as president
  12. 17. Eliminating all competitors to a consolidation of all of one entire segment of an industry (2 words/no spaces)
  13. 19. Controlling every aspect of production from the ground up (2 words/no spaces)
  14. 20. Term meaning Southern Radicals who had been pro-Union since before the Civil War
  15. 23. Paper money issued by Congress at the outset of the Civil War to help pay for the war effort
  16. 24. Became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and had the task of "binding up the nation's wounds"
  17. 25. Scandal in which the government was cheated out of millions of dollars in revenue from excise taxes (2 words/no space)
  18. 27. Developed as an answer to the economic deprivations of the South, which allowed many Southerners to survive, but did not enable them to prosper
  19. 29. Individual who was the leading investment banker in America and creator of the first billion-dollar supercorporation, United States Steel Corporation
  20. 30. Individual who was fired by Johnson, which broke the Tenure of Office Act leading to Johnson's impeachment
  21. 32. Men who led the fight for white majority rule in the South
  22. 33. Term which became a synonym for political corruption
  23. 35. Waving the Bloody Shirt was a political tactic used by Republicans to blame the ____ for the Civil War
  24. 37. Term meaning Northern Radicals who moved to the South
  25. 40. A legal device by which a board was empowered to make decisions and control the operations of a whole group of companies
  26. 43. Attempts to regulate the conduct of the former slaves, often in an unfair manner (2 words/no space)