Reconstruction Era

5. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
8. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
11. a violent secret fraternal society founded in 1915 in Georgia to maintain white Protestant cultural and political power
14. the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society
15. granted African American men the right to vote
17. someone who repays, recovers, saves, or exchanges something for something else
18. was vice president before he became the 17th president
19. abolished slavery in the United States
20. An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees
21. a white Southerner acting in support of the reconstruction governments after the American Civil War often for private gain

1. affirmed the “equality of all men before the law” and prohibited racial discrimination in public places and facilities such as restaurants and public transportation
2. the era previous to the Civil War
3. required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate states, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification
4. to refuse to admit or approve
6. the right to vote in political elections
7. a Northerner in the South after the American Civil Wat usually seeking private gain under the Reconstruction governments
9. declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude
10. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
12. 19th U.S. president
13. a plan for the South pit toward by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
16. first African American senator in 1870