Reconstruction Era

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  1. 2. Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
  2. 8. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
  3. 10. A test administered as a precondition for voting, often used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
  4. 12. guarantees equal protection of the law, due process of law, and rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in US
  5. 13. government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves through things like creation of schools, but was not around long due to lack of funding/support
  6. 14. (1861-1865) deadliest war in American history; conflict between north (union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union
  7. 15. (1856-1861) Early version of the Civil War in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory
  8. 16. A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.
  9. 18. 1865 - abolished slavery
Down
  1. 1. forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race. All males 21+ can vote.
  2. 3. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. Led to horrific treatment of native people.
  3. 4. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
  4. 5. Southern laws that excluded blacks from exercising suffrage by restricting the right to vote only to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1865
  5. 6. A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. Designed to keep black Americans from voting.
  6. 7. Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War 1865-1877
  7. 9. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
  8. 11. Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights
  9. 17. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war