Chapter 22: The Reconstruction Era

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  1. 2. The three laws passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871 which outlawed violence against African American voting.
  2. 5. An act that gave former Confederates the right to vote.
  3. 6. What was the Constitution called when segregation was implemented?
  4. 9. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law.
  5. 10. Gave blacks the right to vote.
  6. 11. The goal of building more mills, factories, and cities in the South was called what?
  7. 13. Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
  8. 14. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
  9. 15. A compromise that allowed Hayes to become president, and Hayes agreed to withdraw the federal troops in the South
  10. 17. the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
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  1. 1. Who was the president during the Reconstruction Era?
  2. 2. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
  3. 3. Where cotton growers rented their land to farmers who gave them one third of the crop back.
  4. 4. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
  5. 7. The election in which Tilden and Hayes were candidates, with Hayes winning by one vote.
  6. 8. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
  7. 12. A Supreme Court case, ruled in 1896, that segregation laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
  8. 16. What was the South called for having many families live in poverty?