Civil War Crossword

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  1. 4. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  2. 5. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
  3. 6. the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
  4. 10. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
  5. 13. a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
  6. 14. A case in which the Court held that the creation of a Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly did not violate the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  7. 16. a United States federal law in force from 1867 to 1887 that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate.
  8. 18. a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War
  9. 20. an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of New York and was the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
  10. 21. an American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator.
  11. 22. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
  12. 24. a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
  13. 25. the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.
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  1. 1. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  2. 2. an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio.
  3. 3. tate and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  4. 7. a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from the founding of the Republican Party in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877.
  5. 8. Bill required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln's proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification
  6. 9. a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
  7. 11. a person who resides on land owned by a landlord.
  8. 12. an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865
  9. 15. white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War
  10. 17. the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
  11. 19. to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  12. 23. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain.