Across
- 2. Amendment that granted citizenship to African Americans
- 5. White Southern Republicans who supported the North during the war
- 8. A southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union
- 9. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens,without regard to race, color, or previous condition
- 12. First African American Senator ever, he represented Mississippi.
- 13. To reject or prohibit actions and laws of other government officials
- 14. Republican who ran against Tilden in the 1876 election and was inaugurated in exchange for the conditions of the Compromise of 1877
- 15. Discriminatory laws that only applied to African Americans
- 17. Bill It stated that at least 50% of eligible voters of the Southern Confederate states had to vote and take oath of allegiance to the Union in order to be readmitted
- 20. Amendment that officially banned slavery in the US
- 21. process of reuniting the country and rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Down
- 1. Northern Republicans who went to the South to make money and rebuild
- 3. The right to vote, especially in a political election
- 4. Created to help former slaves; provided support for the poor in the South, especially education
- 6. An agreement between Republicans & Democrats that ended reconstruction
- 7. Amendment that gave voting rights to African American men
- 10. Southern white democrats who worked to regain control of the state government after the civil war
- 11. To ensure people weren’t being discriminated against in public areas because a white still weren’t expecting African Americans as equals
- 16. Succeeded Lincoln as president; he supported abolition
- 18. Belief or theory that white people are superior to other people, and should therefore have greater power, authority and status
- 19. Terrorist organization formed by former Confederate soldiers; capitalized of fear of anything changing after the Civil War