Reconstruction.

5. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color or because the person was once enslaved
8. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law
10. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
11. commonly described as
12. the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union

1. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
2. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection of the law
3. to put up with
4. of less importance, value, or quality
6. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
7. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
9. to find a solution for