Reconstruction

2. Hays oversaw the end of reconstruction
3. supremacy the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society
4. percent plan decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state
5. baggers a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections
8. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way
9. klux klan a secret hate group
10. amendment abolished slavery
11. Johnson a southern Democrat, became president with the assassination of Lincoln under Johnson’s plan
14. of 1877 an agreement that resolved the disputed 1876 election
15. rights act of 1866 the nation’s first civil rights law

1. bureau a government program that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the south
3. bill a bill to guarantee to certain states whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government
4. amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American civil war
5. rights act of 1875 affirmed the “equality of all men before the law”
6. a thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed
7. codes laws passed by southern states witch restricted African Americans rights
8. the right to vote in political elections
10. amendment the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
12. a person who redeems someone or something
13. Revels the principal of a black school in Baltimore