African Americans During Reconstruction

3. Southern Democrats conceded presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange of withdraw of federal troops.
5. It was ratified in 1868 to grant citizenship to people born or naturalized in the U.S. and equal protection under the law.
8. The effects of abolishing slavery or involuntary servitude, with exceptions of punishment for a crime.
10. A U.S federal agency that was established in 1865 to help former enslaved people and white refugees in the aftermath of the Civil War.
11. Outsiders who moved to new regions to gain political power or financial profit, which was often perceived as exploiting the area's instabilities.

1. Guaranteeing a citizen's right to vote cannot be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by account of race, color, or previous servitude.
2. A way for farmers to get credit before planting season by borrowing the value of harvests.
4. Southern farmers would share their crops with the landowner.
6. A agricultural production system farmers cultivate land owned by someone else and pay for the use of land by a certain amount of cash, crops, or both.
7. Restrictive laws passed in Southern United States after the Civil War, which aimed to control the lives of newly freed African Americans.
9. A secret hate group in the Southern U.S. that was active years after the Civil War, that aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of black people and oppose carpetbaggers from the North.