Reconstruction

3. abolished slavery
4. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
6. restored full rights to people of the south and supported by Democrats
8. overrode Johnson's Veto of Civil Rights Act
10. a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
11. to over rule
12. Ulysses S. _____
16. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

1. Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction
2. A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War
3. States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.
5. northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction
7. 1866 - Enacted by radical Congress, it forbade the president from removing civil officers without consent of the Senate. It was meant to prevent Johnson from removing radicals from office. Johnson broke this law when he fired a radical Republican from his cabinet, and he was impeached for this "crime".
9. putting death on a person by illegal action called mob
13. single crop for big farms
14. laws in the south that restricted black rights
15. assassinated Abraham Lincoln
17. extreme