Recounstruction

2. established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.
3. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
5. the era following the U.S. Civil War was an effort to reunify the divided nation and integrate African Americans into society.
6. typically refers to repressive laws and customs once used to restrict Black Americans' rights
7. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
11. the basic principles and regulations of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it.
13. (in the US) a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
14. the position or status of being a citizen of a particular country.
15. is a condition compared to a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.
16. an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces
17. an addition or alteration made to a constitution, statute, or legislative bill or resolution

1. he constitutional guarantee that no person or group will be denied the protection under the law that is enjoyed by similar persons or groups
3. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
4. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent
8. the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender
9. a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
10. granted African American men the right to vote
12. any of various racially discriminatory laws that were passed in 1865 and 1866 in states that had been part of the Confederate States of America