History Vocab #1

3. the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen.
4. The effort to reintegrate the Southern states from the Confederacy and to reintegrate 4 million newly freed African Americans.
7. The constitutional guarantee that no person or group will be denied the protection under the law that is enjoyed by similar persons or groups.
8. A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics
12. A practice that treats humans like property
13. a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
14. Any law that had put up by ex-confederate states discriminating against black people.
15. Discriminating and separating black people from white people.
16. A policy segregating or discriminating against Black people, in public places, public vehicles, or jobs.
18. The system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, or state is governed

1. An amendment added to the U.S constitution that abolishes slavery
2. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
5. An examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.
6. An amendment added to the U.S. Constitution defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
9. an alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
10. An agency of the war department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
11. An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
17. A tax that the Southern states initiated to try and keep African Americans from voting