Unit 8-Chapter 17 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Republicans- members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union.
  2. 3. a constitutional amendment giving African American men the right to vote.
  3. 5. Revels became the first African American in the U.S. Senate, taking over the seat previously held by Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
  4. 8. laws that enforced segregation in the southern states.
  5. 9. a special tax that a person had to pay to vote.
  6. 11. the unfair treatment of individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, or other characteristics
  7. 12. Offered the South an official pardon for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.
  8. 14. 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.
  9. 15. the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union (1865-1877)
  10. 17. an agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South.
  11. 18. money that someone owes because they borrowed more than they could pay back right away.
  12. 19. a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans.
Down
  1. 1. became the president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  2. 4. a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
  3. 6. made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
  4. 7. laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
  5. 10. a system that legally or socially separates people based on race in public spaces, schools, and housing
  6. 13. were Northerners who believed Reconstruction was needed to rebuild and modernize the South, supported new governments, and provided education for freedmen.
  7. 16. Southerners who believed Reconstruction would help the South rebuild and reunite with the Union, but did not support total social integration or equality between Black and white people.
  8. 17. a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.