Across
- 2. Hays oversaw the end of reconstruction
- 3. supremacy the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society
- 4. percent plan decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state
- 5. baggers a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections
- 8. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way
- 9. klux klan a secret hate group
- 10. amendment abolished slavery
- 11. Johnson a southern Democrat, became president with the assassination of Lincoln under Johnson’s plan
- 14. of 1877 an agreement that resolved the disputed 1876 election
- 15. rights act of 1866 the nation’s first civil rights law
Down
- 1. bureau a government program that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the south
- 3. bill a bill to guarantee to certain states whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government
- 4. amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American civil war
- 5. rights act of 1875 affirmed the “equality of all men before the law”
- 6. a thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed
- 7. codes laws passed by southern states witch restricted African Americans rights
- 8. the right to vote in political elections
- 10. amendment the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- 12. a person who redeems someone or something
- 13. Revels the principal of a black school in Baltimore
