Across
- 7. the right to vote
- 8. Abolition of slavery w/o compensation for slave-owners
- 9. Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights
- 10. Citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.
Down
- 1. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
- 2. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
- 3. Prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)
- 4. to get rid of
- 5. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
- 6. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union