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