Unit 9 Vocabulary Test

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