Civil War & Reconstruction

6. freedmen who paid rent for land to give profit to landowner
7. type of republicans who wanted complete equality for freedmen
9. type of law in the South governed by splitting into military districts
10. legal separation of the races (whites & blacks)
12. to leave/withdraw from the United States
13. Radical ___ took over South; military control
14. term for the Southern states that seceded from the Union
16. Northerners who moved to the South and got involved in Southern politics

1. type of test to assess a person’s ability to read and write; test to keep Freedmen from voting
2. a clause allowed a man to vote if his grandfather or father had voted before January 1, 1867; most African Americans had been slaves, while free people of color and freedmen were not able to vote until 1870
3. (two words) rights held by the states
4. Ku Klux Klan is the Secret society organized in the south that ___ African Americans and kept them from exercising their rights
5. taxes collected to be able to vote
8. Black ___ were designed to limit rights for freedmen in the South
11. Southerners who supported Reconstruction
15. Freed slaves