Chapter 22 - Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 4. limited President Johnson's power over the army
  2. 6. misuse of public office for personal gain
  3. 8. the rights that the Constitution entitles all people to as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
  4. 11. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
  5. 12. African Americans who had been set free from slavery
  6. 13. declared former slaves to be citizens with full civil rights, meaning that governments could not treat some citizens as less than others
  7. 15. northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political power
  8. 18. the ruling of the Supreme Court justices in this case was that segregation laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the facilities available to both races were roughly equal
  9. 20. planters divided their lands into small plots and rented these plots to tenant farmers
  10. 21. marking the beginning of a period in office
  11. 23. murder
  12. 24. set up
  13. 25. laws passed to help combat terrorism against African Americans, making it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics
  14. 26. passed by former wealthy white Southern planters, now leaders, to control their former slaves
  15. 27. hatred
Down
  1. 1. a former Confederate state could rejoin the Union once it had written a new state constitution, elected a new state government, repealed its act of secession, canceled its war debts, and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment
  2. 2. advanced
  3. 3. forgiveness for past offenses
  4. 5. divides the South into five military districts, each governed by a general who was backed by federal troops
  5. 7. states that a citizen's right to vote shall not be denied based on race, color or "previous condition of servitude"
  6. 9. establish to assist former slaves in areas of education, food, and medical care
  7. 10. rebuilding the South and bringing the southern states back into the Union
  8. 14. hold dear
  9. 16. barred President Johnson from firing certain federal officials without the Senate's consent
  10. 17. violence
  11. 19. white southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War
  12. 22. law that allowed most former Confederates to again have the right to vote