Vocabulary

2. Amendment, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
5. the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen.
6. Bureau, An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees
8. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
13. Test, an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
14. a change made by correction, addition, or deletion:
15. the condition of being enslaved, held, or owned as human chattel or property; bondage.
16. of 1877, informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era

1. Amendment, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
2. Amendment, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery.
3. Crow, a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against Black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
4. the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.
7. a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
8. the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.
9. Tax, a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
10. Protection Under The Law, the constitutional guarantee that no person or group will be denied the protection under the law that is enjoyed by similar persons or groups
11. Segregation, the practice of restricting people to certain circumscribed areas of residence or to separate institutions
12. Codes, any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans in the period immediately following the Civil War.