Reconstruction Vocabulary

2. President's power to kill a bill, if Congress is not in session, by not signing it for 10 days
3. Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
7. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reintegrated into the Union
10. A general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution
12. Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
13. Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after the Civil War
14. Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop

1. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
4. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
5. Provided food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and poor whites
6. Basic framework of a building or a system
8. Compromise that enables Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction
9. War between citizens of the same country
11. Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War