Across
- 1. laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
- 3. became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate
- 4. the period of US History during which the United States began to rebuild the South after the Civil War
- 9. Former U.S. Representative
- 15. 19th U.S. President
- 19. military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory
- 20. a person who farms rented land.
- 21. established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.
- 23. believed that African Americans deserved immediate freedom from bondage and should receive the same rights as whites.
- 24. Former Governor of New York
Down
- 2. limiting the protection of the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- 5. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections
- 6. required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union.
- 7. racist, anti-Semitic committed to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.
- 8. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
- 10. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- 11. was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
- 12. law forbidding the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent.
- 13. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
- 14. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
- 16. It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
- 17. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
- 18. 17th U.S. President
- 22. abolished slavery in the United States