Across
- 2. people who live in the Sea Islands of the Low Country with close roots to their African heritage
- 5. an official pardon for people who had committed political offences. These were granted by the president to white southerners after the Civil War.
- 6. He assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- 8. During Reconstruction this famous formerly enslaved orator became the highest-ranking Black official of his time and advocated for full civil rights for Black people as well as for women
- 10. a law that said you could only vote if your grandfather could vote before the Civil War
- 13. One of the first Freedman's Schools, located on St. Helena Island and continued to serve as a Center for Civil Rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. drafted his "I Have A Dream" speech here.
- 14. Union troops took over here early in the Civil War, November, 1861 and freed all of the enslaved people in this area.
- 15. Supreme Court case which ruled that schools could be "separate but equal"
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- 1. these Republicans took control of Congress during Johnson's presidency
- 2. former Union general who was elected president in 1868
- 3. This experiment tried to figure out how to help the formerly enslaved people here in Beaufort, SC
- 4. the use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt. Former enslavers kept the formerly enslaved in bondage this way even after the 13th Amendment.
- 7. laws that forced segregation
- 9. tests designed to stop illiterate Black Americans from being able to vote.
- 11. Born enslaved in Beaufort, he stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War and went on to become a Captain in the Union Navy and later a member of Congress
- 12. the process of charging a public official with a crime