Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 10. gave citizenship to the former slaves.
  2. 12. freed the slaves.
  3. 13. Southern laws that limited African American rights after the Civil War.
  4. 14. Had to pay a tax in order to vote.
  5. 16. Unflattering nickname for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of struggling Southerners in order to make money.
  6. 17. 1867 act which divided the South into five military districts. States had to approve the 14th Amendment and give blacks suffrage.
  7. 18. Designed to allow illiterate whites. to vote while preventing illiterate African Americans from voting.
  8. 19. Secret Society formed in the South after the Civil War to reestablish white superiority.
Down
  1. 1. Supreme Court Case that legalized segregation and said "separate but equal" is fair.
  2. 2. right to vote for former slaves (men only).
  3. 3. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction that allowed state governments in the South to form a new government if ten percent of the population swore loyalty to the United States.
  4. 4. Laws that enforced segregation between blacks and whites.
  5. 5. Government agency during Reconstruction with the goal of helping freedmen.
  6. 6. Time period after the Civil War when the South worked to rebuild and the US government worked to reunite the country.
  7. 7. had to pass a test in order to vote.
  8. 8. Men and women who had previously been slaves.
  9. 9. Members of Congress who helped freedmen gain rights during Reconstruction.
  10. 11. Person who rents a plot of land and farms it and pays the person a share of their crop as rent.
  11. 15. Legally Separated people by race.