Across
- 3. the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen.
- 4. The effort to reintegrate the Southern states from the Confederacy and to reintegrate 4 million newly freed African Americans.
- 7. The constitutional guarantee that no person or group will be denied the protection under the law that is enjoyed by similar persons or groups.
- 8. A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics
- 12. A practice that treats humans like property
- 13. a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
- 14. Any law that had put up by ex-confederate states discriminating against black people.
- 15. Discriminating and separating black people from white people.
- 16. A policy segregating or discriminating against Black people, in public places, public vehicles, or jobs.
- 18. The system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, or state is governed
Down
- 1. An amendment added to the U.S constitution that abolishes slavery
- 2. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 5. An examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.
- 6. An amendment added to the U.S. Constitution defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
- 9. an alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
- 10. An agency of the war department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
- 11. An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
- 17. A tax that the Southern states initiated to try and keep African Americans from voting