unit 9: reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. murder usually under secret attack for politcal reasons
  2. 5. the period of rebuilding social economic, and political systems after the civil war
  3. 13. males could vote regardless of color( gave suffrage to African Americans
  4. 14. a proposal by President abraham Lincoln to readmit confederate states to the Union. the plan was based on the idea that 10 % of a state's 1860 voters must swear loyalty to the Union
  5. 17. Republican a republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the civil war
  6. 18. a person from the northern states who went to the south after the Civil war to profit from the reconstruction
  7. 22. the right of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced
  8. 23. the status of being a legal citizen of a country and entitled to certain rights
Down
  1. 1. the rights of all people to social, economic and political freedom and equality
  2. 2. defined us citizen which receives due process and equal protection under the law
  3. 4. a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials
  4. 6. agreement between southern democrats and the republicans to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the reconstruction era
  5. 7. abolished slavery
  6. 8. the right to vote
  7. 9. a system that keeps different groups seperate from each other, normally through social pressures and/or laws
  8. 10. a system of beliefs and practices in which white people are considered to be superior to people of other racial backgrounds that is maintained through discrimination
  9. 11. a white southerner who collaborated with northern republicans during reconstruction, often for personal profit
  10. 12. to reject; to refuse a law made by legislature
  11. 15. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights, privileges, and protections to all people
  12. 16. laws passed in the southern states that enforce racial segregation on the United States after the civil war to limit the rights of former
  13. 19. rising to an important position
  14. 20. a fixed sum tax levied on all persons
  15. 21. laws that enforced racial segregation in the US from the post civil war era until the 1960's