Reconstruction Era

1. Most ___ voters joined the Republican Party—the party of Lincoln and emancipation.
3. was elected with the help of half a million votes cast by Black men.
5. President Johnson was accused by Congress of violating the ___ of Office Act.
7. change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race, or because the person was once enslaved.
10. In 1870 and 1871, Congress passed three laws to combat violence against Black Americans known as the _____ Acts.
11. laws enforcing segregation of Black and White people in the South after the Civil War.
12. the Freedman's Bureau built more than 1,000 _____.
15. the right to ____ allowed formerly enslaved peoples to keep a family record.
17. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
19. rented their land from plantation owners.

2. The conventions met and wrote new _____ for their states.
4. The ____ Act allowed most former Confederates to vote once again.
6. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
8. the period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union as the federal government addressed the impact of slavery
9. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law.
13. About a ____ of the South’s new officeholders were Black men.
14. Congress reorganized the South into five military _____.
16. 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.
18. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of Black Americans