Reconstruction Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. the period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states
  2. 3. a law that enforced segregation in the southern states
  3. 4. a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
  4. 5. a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans for obtaining their civil rights
  5. 6. Supreme Court case that established the "separate-but-equal" doctrine for public facilities
  6. 8. laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans
  7. 11. Pres. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction; once 10% of voters in a former Confederate state took a U.S. loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and re readmitted to the Union
  8. 13. laws passed by congress that made it a crime to interfere with elections or deny citizens equal protection under the law
  9. 14. an agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops in the South
  10. 16. a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans
  11. 17. a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote
  12. 18. Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery
Down
  1. 1. members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  2. 2. an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South
  3. 7. the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
  4. 9. a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
  5. 10. the laws that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th amendment
  6. 12. A Constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians
  7. 15. the forced separation of people of different races in public places