Unit 9 Reconstruction Vocabulary

4. test an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
6. the legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
7. an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
9. Amendment an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
10. of 1877 an agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876
13. Republican a member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
14. Bureau a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
15. klux Klan a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
16. Amendment an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

1. tax a tax required before a person can vote
2. Amendment an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
3. a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
5. Percent Plan the Reconstruction plan endorsed by Lincoln 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
6. a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
8. Crow Laws laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
11. 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
12. codes the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War