Across
- 5. President Andrew Johnson’s plan of Reconstruction that gave the former confederate South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to African Americans in the politics of the South.
- 7. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view
- 8. Northerners who moved to the south for economic or political opportunities (an insulting term used by southerners to describe those northerners)
- 9. The period of time (1865-1877) after the Civil War when the government attempted to allow states back into the Union, address the issue of slavery, and rebuild the country
- 10. Law that abolished slavery in the U.S. right after the Civil War (1865)
Down
- 1. Laws of racial segregation and discrimination passed by state and local governments after the Civil War. Many of these laws remained in place until 1965.
- 2. Before the Civil War, this was used to describe an animal or no-good person. After the war, this term was used to insult white southerners who supported Reconstruction.
- 3. After the Civil War, this law granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved persons (1868)
- 4. the act of setting apart; the enforced separation of racial groups
- 6. Law that gave citizens the right to vote, regardless of their race (1870)
