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- 4. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
- 8. granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States
- 12. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or previous condition of servitude
- 13. Any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- 14. After the disputed Presidential Election of 1876, Congress declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner, but Republicans promised to withdraw remaining troops from Southern states & no longer attempt to reshape Southern states; marked the end of Reconstruction as Democrats regained control of the South
- 15. A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
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- 1. first African American senator
- 2. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
- 3. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- 5. Civil War general who became president in 1869
- 6. 17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached
- 7. 26 year old actor and Southern sympathizer, assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- 9. Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
- 10. declared that all persons born in the US were citizenship, that all citizens were entitled to equal rights and their rights were protected by due process
- 11. officially made slavery illegal in all of the United States