Reconstruction Era

2. was a derogatory term applied by Southerners to opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.
6. an American politician and attorney who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio.
7. U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda.
9. government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
11. a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
12. an unwritten deal, informally arranged among United States Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.
14. a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government," proposed for the Reconstruction of the South.
15. agricultural system in which landowners contribute their land and a measure of operating capital and management while tenants contribute their labour with various amounts of capital and management, the returns being shared in a variety of ways.

1. an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
3. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain
4. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
5. referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
8. 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.
10. a faction of American politicians from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Had a goal of immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.
13. codes were laws governing the conduct of African Americans.