Across
- 2. Northern whites who moved to the South and served as Republican leaders during Reconstruction & started businesses.
- 6. A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
- 8. 17th President & former VP of Lincoln, vetoed many of the Radical Republicans plans to support freedmen.
- 9. allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction
- 11. This secured the rights of freedmen., it gave citizenship to African- Americans
- 15. Created by Radical Republicans to provide food, shelter, education & legal protection for newly freed slaves.
- 16. Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
- 18. Southern whites who supported Republican's through Reconstruction & wanted them to help rebuild the South.
- 21. people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop
- 22. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
- 23. Created by Pres. Lincoln to quickly reunite the North & South by asking Southern states for 10% of loyalty to return to the USA.
- 24. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- 25. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
Down
- 1. States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.
- 3. Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after Civil War
- 4. 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were "separate, but equal."
- 5. State laws in the South that legalized segregation.
- 7. Radical Republican's plan to slowly reunite the North & South by asking Southern states for 50% loyalty to return to the United States.
- 10. Civil War general & 18th President of the United States; elected with a majority freedmen votes.
- 12. founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence.
- 13. Act of 1867 Vetoed by Johnson, Radical Republicans tried to remove Southern governments who refused to support freedmen's citizenship.
- 14. a requirement that citizens show that they can read before registering to vote
- 17. Abolition (end) of slavery
- 19. 19th Republican President who ended Reconstruction by making a deal with Democrats.
- 20. Idea that the south should industrialize after the Civil War with factory technology; coal, steel & textiles.