Reconstruction

1. Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law.
2. Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the civil war.
5. Congressman who advocate full citizenship rights for African Americans along with harsh reconstruction policy towards the south.
8. American politician who was U.S. representative and senator from Mississippi.
9. Supreme court ruling stating that slaves were not citizens, congress had no jurisdiction over slavery in the territories.
10. 17th president of the United States.
12. Reformer who sought to end slavery.
15. Machine invented in 1793 to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds.
16. The 16th president of the United States.
17. Abolished slavery in the U.S. and provides "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude".
18. Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups.

1. Government of 11 southern states that seceded from the united states and fought against the union in the civil war.
3. Program implanted by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the south.
4. Amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of laws.
6. Principle in which the people are the only source of government power.
7. Segregation imposed by law.
11. Segregation laws enacted in the South after reconstruction.
13. Accusation against a public official of wrong doing in office.
14. Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.