Across
- 2. A machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds
- 5. Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South
- 6. Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories by enacting a stricter fugitive slave law
- 7. 1865 Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
- 10. Government of 11 southern states that seceded from the U.S. and fought against the union in the Civil War
- 14. 1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under law
- 16. segregation imposed by law
- 18. reformer who sought to end slavery
- 19. 16th president of the USA
Down
- 1. Accusation against a public official of wrongdoing in office
- 3. Supreme Court ruling stating that slaves were not citizens
- 4. 1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude
- 8. Principle in which the people are the only source of government power
- 9. President of the CSA
- 11. 17th President of the USA
- 12. Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups
- 13. Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the South after the Civil War
- 15. segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction
- 17. Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore the Southern states to the union