Unit VI: Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
  2. 4. granted African American men the right to vote.
  3. 6. Thaddeus Stevens, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, fought to abolish slavery and helped draft the 14th Amendment during Reconstruction.
  4. 9. controversial federal law meant to restrict the ability of the U.S. president to remove certain officials that Congress had already approved.
  5. 11. faction of the Republican Party during the Civil War. distinguished by their fierce advocacy for the abolition of slavery, enfranchisement of black citizens, and holding the Southern states financially and morally culpable for the war.
  6. 13. a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used,especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
  7. 14. period that followed the Civil War and was an effort to reunify the divided nation and integrate African Americans into society.
  8. 15. agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management.
  9. 17. a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression,
  10. 18. Louisiana passed a law that restricted slaughterhouse operations in New Orleans to a single corporation. They argued the monopoly created involuntary servitude in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment.
  11. 20. abolished slavery “within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
  12. 22. to charge someone with doing something wrong, specifically a high government official, such as the U.S. president, a senator, or a federal judge.
  13. 25. state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
Down
  1. 1. the 19th President of the United States. began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War.
  2. 2. organization that fed millions of people, built hospitals and provided medical aid, negotiated labor contracts for ex-slaves and settled labor disputes, helped former slaves legalize marriages and locate lost relatives, and assisted black veterans.
  3. 5. a traveler who arrives in a new region with only a satchel of possessions, and who attempts to profit from his new surroundings, often against the will or consent of the original inhabitants.
  4. 7. bill that formally abolished slavery and prohibited Confederate officials and veterans from voting. Also required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union.
  5. 8. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
  6. 10. an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
  7. 12. granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”.
  8. 16. term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen.
  9. 19. served as Governor of New York State and was extremely successful lawyer
  10. 21. the seventh President of the United States, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man.
  11. 23. were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
  12. 24. group created by confederare soldiers following the Civil War to suppress and victimize newly freed slaves.