Vocabulary for Lessons 1, 2, and 3
Across
- 3. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1869 prohibiting any state from forbidding African Americans to vote because of their race.
- 5. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1865, banning slavery throughout the US.
- 7. A white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction.
- 9. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War was over.
- 11. A pardon given by the government.
- 12. Southern laws the limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
- 13. A secret society organized in the south after the Civil War to reinforce white supremacy through violence.
- 15. An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War.
Down
- 1. Amendment added to the Constitution in 1868 which guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
- 2. Members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy plantation owners and ensure freedmen the right to vote.
- 4. A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help those who were formerly enslaved.
- 6. To bring charges of grave wrongdoing against a public official.
- 8. Men and women who had been formerly enslaved.
- 10. Someone who rents a plot of land from someone else and farms it in exchange for a share in the crop it yields.
- 14. 1867 law that would not allow southern states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment return to the Union.