Across
- 3. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
- 8. justified in terms of profitability.
- 9. group in Congress who believed that the South would not be completely rebuilt until freedman were granted the full rights of citizenship
- 10. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
- 15. individuals who have been displaced from their homes due to various reasons – such as war, persecution, or natural disasters – but who remain loyal to their home country or region
- 16. the payment made to an employee for a specific period, mostly hourly or daily.
- 17. the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern States were rebuilt and brought back into the Union a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
Down
- 1. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
- 2. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
- 4. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
- 5. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under all law
- 6. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color,or because the person was once a slave
- 7. release from captivity, confinement, or slavery.
- 11. how laborers and employers work together
- 12. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
- 13. situations in which laborers offer their skills, services, and time for a minimal amount of money or no payments
- 14. to solve or end a problem