U.S. history

2. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
4. known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Blacks
7. required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln's proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification
9. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
10. several United States administrations wanted to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.
11. poor farmers were granted access to farm small plots of land
12. a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period

1. became the first African American senator in 1870
3. were laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
5. the 17th president of the U.S.
6. provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States
8. a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction