Unit 8

7. Guaranteed citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and ensured equal protection under the law.
9. The U.S. process of reuniting and rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
11. The legal or social separation of people based on race.
12. A pledge Southerners had to take promising allegiance to the United States to be readmitted.
13. Abolished slavery throughout the United States.
14. A farming system where freedmen worked a portion of land in return for a share of the crops.
16. Laws passed in Southern states to restrict African American freedoms after the Civil War.

1. A reading and writing test used to suppress the Black vote during and after Reconstruction.
2. U.S. president who took office after Lincoln and implemented a lenient Reconstruction plan.
3. A group that used violence and terror to oppose Reconstruction and suppress Black rights.
4. Gave African American men the right to vote.
5. President who proposed the Ten Percent Plan to bring Southern states back into the Union.
6. A president’s rejection of a bill; Johnson often used this to oppose Radical Republican legislation.
8. Rights guaranteed to all citizens regardless of race, including voting and equal treatment.
10. A farming system where a person rents land and pays with cash or a share of crops.
15. A fee required to vote, used to prevent African Americans from voting.