Reconstruction Vocab

4. Gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and promised equal protection under the law.
5. The 16th president of the United States who led the nation during the Civil War and helped end slavery.
8. The time period after the Civil War when the United States worked to rebuild the South and reunite the country.
10. Ku Klux Klan, A violent group that used threats and attacks to keep African Americans from exercising their rights and to maintain white control in the South.
11. A change to the Constitution that officially ended slavery in the United States.
12. A government agency created after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people with food, schools, and jobs.
14. Membership in a country that gives a person certain rights and responsibilities.
15. A fee a person had to pay in order to vote. It was used to stop African Americans and poor people from voting.
16. A group of Republicans in Congress who wanted strict rules for rebuilding the South and stronger protections for African Americans.

1. Gave African American men the right to vote.
2. A test people had to pass to vote. It was used in unfair ways to keep African Americans from voting.
3. The rights of citizens to have equal treatment and fairness under the law.
6. The legal process through which a person who was not born in the U.S. becomes a U.S. citizen.
7. Laws passed in the South after the Civil War that limited the rights of African Americans and tried to keep them in low-paying labor.
9. The 17th president who took office after Lincoln was assassinated. He disagreed with many Reconstruction plans and was lenient toward the South.
13. Laws that enforced racial segregation in public places and kept African Americans and whites separated.