Reconstruction Vocabulary

4. Northern politicians or opportunists who moved to the South during Reconstruction for economic or political gain.
6. A white supremacist organization founded in the Reconstruction era, aimed at terrorizing and oppressing African Americans.
8. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction policies and the Republican Party.
9. A collective term for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
11. The practice of separating people, particularly in public facilities, based on their race, which became widespread in the South after Reconstruction.

1. An agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War, in which former slaves and poor whites worked the land of landowners in exchange for a share of the crops.
2. Laws enacted in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the civil rights and freedoms of African Americans.
3. Proclamation: The executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, which declared the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate states.
5. The period following the American Civil War (1865-1877) when the United States attempted to rebuild and reunify the nation.
7. A faction of the Republican Party that pushed for more aggressive policies during Reconstruction, including civil rights for freedmen.
10. Formerly enslaved individuals who were freed during and after the Civil War.