Unit 9 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. a fixed sum tax levied on all persons
  2. 6. laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people
  3. 9. Act a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials
  4. 10. the rights of all people to social, economic, and political freedom and equality
  5. 11. 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
  6. 14. abolished slavery
  7. 16. the right to vote
  8. 17. the period of rebuilding social, economic, and political systems after the Civil War
  9. 18. the status of being a legal citizen of a country and entitled to certain rights
  10. 19. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
  11. 20. the right of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced
  12. 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
  13. 23. murder usually under secret attack for political reasons
Down
  1. 1. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights, privileges, and protections to all people
  2. 2. Males could vote regardless of color (gave suffrage to African Americans)
  3. 3. defined U.S. citizen, which receives due process and equal protection under the law
  4. 4. laws that enforced racial segregation in the United States from the post-Civil War era until the 1960s
  5. 7. rising to an important position
  6. 8. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
  7. 12. agreement between southern Democrats and the Republicans to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era
  8. 13. a system that keeps different groups separate from each other, normally through social pressures and/or laws
  9. 15. a Republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the Civil War
  10. 21. to reject; to refuse a law made by legislature