Reconstruction Period

3. 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 a slave
6. A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
8. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
11. (especially in the US) A charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
12. (First word) means forgiveness for past offenses. This (Second word) allowed for most former Confederates to vote once again
14. A political battle between former general Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour
15. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
17. Divided the South into five military districts, each governed by a general supported by federal troops.

1. A compromise that farmers who couldn't afford their whole farm could rent out small portions of their land, those renting would pay with the amount gained from their crops
2. An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
4. These three laws made it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics
5. A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
7. The period of time after the civil war in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
9. Laws passed in 1865 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
10. Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
13. A change in the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
16. A sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.