Reconstruction & Renewal

5. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
8. a period in American history following the American Civil War; lasting from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
10. Republican Reconstruction policies would solidify white Southerners’ loyalty to the Democratic Party for many decades to come.
11. During the American Civil War, the Union, also known as the North, governed by the U.S. federal government led by President Abraham Lincoln.
12. an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist people emancipated from slavery in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.

1. Transfer of hundreds of pieces of property from Confederate owners to Unionist, including freedmen.
2. The Republicans during the reconstruction era in the South represented a coalition of Black people (who made up most Republican voters in the region) along with carpetbaggers, as white Republicans
3. A radical republican faction led by Daniel Richards and Liberty Billings who emphasized rights for blacks at the expense of native whites. of radical republicans
4. The legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral (having two branches), the House of Representatives and the Senate.
6. an organized body having the authority to make laws for a political unit
7. Unrecognized breakaway state that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War.
9. an emancipated slave.