Across
- 2. believed African Americans should demand full civil, political, and social rights immediately
- 5. Civil rights leader and journalist who exposed lynching in America
- 9. The constitutional amendment granting citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
- 11. Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans after slavery ended
- 15. This group in Congress wanted to punish the South and give freedmen full rights
- 18. President who took over after Lincoln’s death and opposed many Reconstruction laws
- 19. This president’s plan focused on forgiveness and healing after the Civil War
- 20. Laws that forced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and public spaces
- 21. The Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal” segregation
- 22. The 1877 agreement that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South
Down
- 1. Became president in the election of 1876
- 3. The constitutional amendment guaranteeing voting rights regardless of race
- 4. involved the South being divided into five military districts governed by Union generals
- 6. Former Confederate general who urged Southerners to reconcile with the North
- 7. The first federal relief agency that provided food, schools, and aid to formerly enslaved people
- 8. The constitutional amendment that ended slavery
- 10. A leader who believed African Americans should gain respect through education and job training
- 12. The system where freedmen farmed land and gave a large share of crops as rent
- 13. Organization co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight for civil rights through legal action
- 14. The secret society that used violence to stop African Americans from voting
- 16. law gave African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans and allowed federal troops to enforce those rights
- 17. He was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate