Reconstruction

1. -A government agency created in 1865 to help formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and legal assistance.
4. Amendment -An amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery in the United States.
5. Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often to seek economic or political opportunities.
6. The process in 1868 where Congress charged the president with violating laws; he was not removed from office but it showed conflict over Reconstruction.
7. -Laws passed in Southern states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
9. Republicans A group in Congress who wanted strict punishment for the South and full civil rights for formerly enslaved people.
11. -The period after the Civil War (1865–1877) when the United States worked to rebuild the South and bring formerly enslaved people into society as citizens.

1. -Formerly enslaved African Americans who gained their freedom after the Civil War.
2. A system where farmers (often freedmen) rented land and paid the landowner with a share of their crops.
3. Amendment -An amendment that granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people.
8. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War.
10. Amendment -An amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.