Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. the election of this president essentially ended the period of Reconstruction
  2. 4. the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v Ferguson upheld segregation and established the principle of --- but equal
  3. 6. created by Congress in 1865 to assist African Americans with medical services, food, clothing, and education
  4. 8. This president's plan to allow Southern states back into the Union required 10% of the voters in a state to take an oath of loyalty to the Union
  5. 9. to end separation of different races
  6. 11. requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specific level, used to prevent African Americans from voting
  7. 13. to pardon
  8. 15. this amendment gave black men the right to vote in the United States
  9. 17. to formally charge a president for wrongdoing
  10. 19. this Supreme Court decision in 1857 ruled that African Americans were not citizens
  11. 21. crops sold for money
  12. 22. a tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote
  13. 23. laws that required the separation of people by race in nearly every public place
  14. 24. putting to death a person by illegal action of a mob
Down
  1. 1. this amendment guaranteed citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
  2. 2. system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop
  3. 5. the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
  4. 7. laws passed in 1866 meant to control the recently freed African Americans
  5. 10. a northerner who moved to the South after the war
  6. 12. first African American Senator
  7. 14. this amendment abolished slavery in the United States
  8. 16. plans for readmitting the Southern states back into the Union
  9. 18. became President of the United States after the assassination of President Lincoln
  10. 20. a scoundrel or worthless rascal