Unit 9: Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. defined U.S. citizen, which receives due process and equal protection under the law
  2. 5. agreement between southern democrats and the Republicans to settle the results of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era
  3. 8. laws that enforced racial segregation in the United States from the post-civil war to profit from the reconstruction
  4. 11. males could vote regardless of color (gave suffrage to African Americas)
  5. 12. a white southern who collaborated with northern republicans during reconstruction, often for personal profit
  6. 13. the right of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced
  7. 19. the rights of all people to social, economic, and political freedom equality
  8. 20. a system that keeps different groups separate from each other, normally through social pressures and/or laws
  9. 21. murder usually under secret attack for political reasons
  10. 22. 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
  11. 23. laws passed in the southern united states after the civil war to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people
Down
  1. 1. 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
  2. 2. a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials
  3. 4. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the civil war to profit from the reconstruction
  4. 6. abolished slavery
  5. 7. a fixed sum tax levied on all persons
  6. 9. rising to an important position
  7. 10. to reject; to refuse a law made by legislature
  8. 14. the right to vote
  9. 15. the period of rebuilding social, economic, and political systems after the Civil War
  10. 16. a republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the Civil War
  11. 17. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights, privileges, and protections to all people
  12. 18. the status of being a legal citizen of a country and entitled to certain rights