Unit 9 Reconstruction Vocabulary

3. Klux Klan secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
5. tax tax required before a person can vote
6. test examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
8. of 1877 a deal that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president as long as he promised to withdraw troops from the South, this event ended Reconstruction
11. person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
12. Percent Plan Lincoln’s plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
15. Republican member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
16. Crow Laws laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
17. legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

1. Amendment an 1868 amendment that guarantees citizenship rights to freed slaves
2. derogatory term given to white Republicans in the south who supported Reconstruction
4. codes Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
7. Bureau government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
9. uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
10. Bill an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy
13. Amendment an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans to the right to vote because of race
14. Amendment an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation