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Down: 1) A United States federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865-1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States.2) A clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants.5) This document freed enslaved people in all areas that were in rebellion against the United States.6) A comprehensive plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War. It called for a strong defense of Washington,D.C, a blockade of the Confederacy's Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and a massive land and naval attack along the Mississippi River aimed at cutting the Confederacy in two.10) Policies to rebuild the South after the Civil War and to allow Southern states to be re-admitted to the Union.12) the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.14) A fee imposed equally on all adults at the time of voting and is not affected by property ownership or income. It was used in the South during and after Reconstruction as a means of denying civil rights to blacks.15) A farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop. Across: 3) A northerner who went south to take advantage of Reconstruction.4) Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude.7) The government formed in 1861 by southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States.8) A person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce9) A white southerner who supported Reconstruction.11) Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"13) The Congressional Reconstruction Plan; one part states 50% or more of the population required to take "Ironclad Oath", then they can elect representatives to Congress.16) the northern states of the U.S during the Civil War17) Amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process and equal protection.18) the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860-61, which brought on the Civil War.19) the legal prohibition and ending of slavery, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.20) The practice of having residents of a state vote on slavery.
 

 

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