Reconstruction

1. the right to vote in political elections
4. the period immediately following the Civil War
6. is one of the Enforcement Acts enacted during the Civil War in order to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibit exclusion from jury service
8. a person from the northern states who went to the south after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction
9. a political coalition in the South who sought to overthrow the Radical Republicans, carpetbaggers, and scalawags. The conservative, pro-business wing of the Democratic Party a political coalition in the South who sought to overthrow the Radical Republicans, carpetbaggers, and scalawags. The conservative, pro-business wing of the Democratic Party

1. a system where a farmer gives a portion of each crop yield to the landowner as rent
2. a system that became widely used by cotton farmers in the South between 1860-1930; tenants did not own the land they worked but obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants
3. addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. Was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the Civil War. Moved citizenship from the state to the federal level
5. a white southerner who collaborated with the Republican Party during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
7. of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled a disputed presidential election. Resulted in the United States government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended Reconstruction