Across
- 2. Republicans who thought that Abraham Lincoln was too lenient on the South
- 4. To find a solution for
- 7. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
- 11. a change to the Constitution abolishing slavery in the US
- 12. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
- 13. taxes on voting
- 15. laws passed to prevent people from voting
- 16. a change to the Constitution granting citizenship to anyone born in the US and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
- 17. 17th president, who stared the reconstructions of the south
Down
- 1. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
- 3. tests forced to take in order to vote
- 5. southern white men, who were against equal rights and used violence to go back to “the old days” or “the way it should be”
- 6. the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
- 8. Hayes’s opposing candidate from the Democratic side
- 9. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
- 10. Formerly enslaved people who had been freed by the war.
- 14. 16th president, who abolished slavery
- 16. a change to the Constitution declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave