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3. Prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
7. Defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons
10. A secret cooperative network engaged in the clandestine movement and housing of fugitives
14. It was the site of two important Civil War battles,both Confederate victories
15. A pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era
16. A doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people

1. The withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the Union in 1860-1861
2. Set of regulations to abolishing slavery
4. A white Southerner working for or supporting the federal government during Reconstruction
5. The practice of ordering people by law to serve in the armed forces
6. The period (1865-1877) during which the states that had seceded to the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union
7. Its capture by Confederate forces (1861) was the first action of the Civil War
8. A white supremacist organization that was founded in 1866
9. During the Civil War it was besieged from 1862 to 1863 and finally captured by troops led by Ulysses S. Grant on July 4
11. Were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877
12. A creek of north-central Maryland, were one of the civil war battle was fought along its banks on September 17
13. A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land