Unit 9 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
  2. 6. laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt
  3. 7. an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
  4. 13. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction
  5. 15. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
  6. 16. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election
  7. 17. the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment
Down
  1. 1. the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s
  2. 2. required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union
  3. 4. a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a vigorous campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during Reconstruction
  4. 5. a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union
  5. 8. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
  6. 9. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  7. 10. a post-Civil War American secret society advocating white supremacy
  8. 11. part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century, used to deny suffrage to African Americans
  9. 12. a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources
  10. 14. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent