Reconstruction

2. former slaves
4. laws enforcement segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
5. ruling that stated that segregation laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the facilities available to both races were roughly equal
6. citizen’s right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
7. president that announced the Reconstruction plan; escaped impeachment
10. assisted former slaves by providing food and medical care to both blacks and whites in the South
12. rebuilding the South and bringing the southern states back into the Union

1. planters who divided their land into small plots and rented these plots to individual tenant farmers
2. declared slaves to be citizens with full civil rights
3. secret society formed to drive African Americans out of political life
8. white southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War
9. northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political power
11. passed to control slaves
13. the rights that the Constitution entitles all people to as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law