SS8 - Chapter 17 Key Terms and People

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Across
  1. 2. – A government agency that helped formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, jobs, and legal help after the Civil War.
  2. 4. – An 1896 Supreme Court case that allowed segregation by ruling that “separate but equal” facilities were legal.
  3. 5. – The period after the American Civil War when the United States worked to rebuild the South and bring former Confederate states back into the Union.
  4. 7. Amendment – An amendment to the Constitution that ended slavery in the United States.
  5. 9. – A plan created by Abraham Lincoln that allowed a Southern state to rejoin the Union when 10% of its voters swore loyalty to the United States.
  6. 11. – Laws passed in the South that limited the rights and freedoms of formerly enslaved people.
  7. 12. – The first African American elected to the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi during Reconstruction.
  8. 14. – Laws in the South that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.
  9. 17. – An amendment that granted citizenship to all people born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
  10. 19. – A farming system where farmers rented land and paid the landowner with a share of the crops they grew.
  11. 20. – The separation of people based on race, especially in public places.
Down
  1. 1. – Laws passed by Congress that divided the South into military districts and required states to protect African American rights before rejoining the Union.
  2. 3. – A group in Congress that wanted stronger federal action to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people and punish former Confederate leaders.
  3. 6. – A law stating that all people born in the United States are citizens and have equal rights under the law.
  4. 8. – A secret group that used violence and intimidation to try to prevent African Americans from gaining equal rights.
  5. 10. – The U.S. president who took office after Lincoln’s assassination and oversaw the early years of Reconstruction.
  6. 13. – An amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
  7. 15. – An agreement that settled the disputed presidential election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
  8. 16. – The process by which Congress charges a government official with wrongdoing, possibly leading to removal from office.
  9. 18. – A fee that people had to pay in order to vote, often used to prevent poor African Americans from voting.