Across
- 5. a person from the northern states who went south after the civil war to profit from reconstruction
- 7. a white southern who collaborated with northern republicans during reconstruction, often for personal profit
- 11. to reject, refuse a law made by legislature
- 14. rising to an important position
- 16. agreement between southern democrats and the repubicans to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the reconstruction era
- 17. A proposal by Abraham Lincoln tthe o readmit Confederate States to the union
- 20. the status of being a legal citizen of a country and entitled to certain rights
- 21. laws passed in the south to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people
- 22. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights, privlages, and protections to all people
- 23. laws that enforced racial segregation in the United States from the post civil war era until the 1960s
Down
- 1. a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials
- 2. the right to vote
- 3. a system of beliefs and practices in which white people are considered to be superior to people of other races
- 4. Abolished Slavery
- 6. The period of rebuilding social, economic, and political systems after the Civil War
- 8. a system that keeps different groups separate from each other
- 9. a republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the South following the Civil War
- 10. the rights of all people to social, economic, and political freedom and equality
- 12. the right of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced
- 13. defined U.S citizen, which receives due process and equal protection under the law
- 15. a fixed sum tax levied on all persons
- 18. murder usually under secret attack for political reasons
- 19. Males that could vote regardless of race,(gave voting rights to African Americans)