Civil War

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  1. 2. This tax was like a fee people had to pay to be able to vote, and it made it harder for poor people and some groups to have their voices heard in elections.
  2. 5. A secret American terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan led underground resistance against the civil rights and political power of newly freed Black people who had been enslaved.
  3. 6. This bureau is a special government agency created after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people (and some poor whites) in the South
  4. 8. This Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  5. 11. This tests for voting were unfair quizzes given to people, especially Black Americans, to try and stop them from being able to vote.
  6. 12. 17th President of the United States, after Lincoln was assassinated. He was a Southern Democrat who became Vice President. He faced a lot of challenges trying to rebuild the country and reunite it, and he had disagreements with Congress over how to do it.
  7. 13. This Amendment says that anyone born in the United States is a citizen and that all states must treat everyone the same under the law.
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  1. 1. Laws passed in the Southern states after the Civil War to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
  2. 3. Won one of the closest presidential elections in history. He tried to reform the government as well as ending the Era of Reconstruction in the south.
  3. 4. A general during the Civil War. As the 18th President he focused on rebuilding the country and protecting the rights of newly freed slaves
  4. 6. This Amendment to the US Constitution says that everyone, regardless of their race, skin color, or if they used to be a slave, has the right to vote.
  5. 7. A farming system after slavery where families farmed someone else's land and had to give the landowner a share of their crops, often leading to debt and hardship.
  6. 9. This was after the Civil War, the United States tried to rebuild the country and give rights to formerly enslaved people, but it was a difficult time with many disagreements and unfair treatment.
  7. 10. Laws that were a set of discriminatory state and local laws that existed in the Southern United States from the 1870s to the 1960s.