Westward Expansion Vocabulary
Across
- 4. outlawed slavery
- 5. The process of readmitting the former Confederate States to the Union; lasted from 1865-1877
- 9. agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people in the South
- 11. gave full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians
- 14. An agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876;
- 15. What white Southerners called Republicans from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction
- 16. Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities
Down
- 1. gave African American men the right to vote
- 2. A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote
- 3. laws that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans
- 6. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked the land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
- 7. President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
- 8. laws that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment
- 10. Laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans
- 12. Name the southern Democrats gave to white southern Republicans during Reconstruction
- 13. Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states