Civil War and Reconstruction Review

4. Government agency tasked with helping 1865 to 1877 where the U.S. tried to former slaves following the Civil War.
7. A payment needed in some U.S. States War. before a person could vote in a federal 12. granted the right to vote to former male election as a way of preventing poor Africa Americans from voting.
8. The South was divided into five _______ _________ and each was run by a general in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War.
11. The process of the government bringing an elected official to trial for misconduct while in office.
12. A Civil War era Congressional law that gave Americans 160 acre plots of land for a very small fee.
14. A Congressional act that gave states money for colleges that specialized in farming, military science or engineering.
15. A period after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 where the U.S. tried to reintegrate the Southern states back into the Union.
16. Fair and impartial.
18. A voting requirement in many Southern States during the Jim Crow era aimed at keeping poor African Americans from voting.
19. granted U.S. citizenship and equal protection for all people born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people.
20. granted the right to vote to former male slaves and others males.
21. Elected President in 1860 and assassinated in 1865 during his second term in office.

1. A freed former slave.
2. Debt A practice of borrowing more money to pay off an existing debt.
3. the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
5. The murder of a public figure, like a politician.
6. a series of laws aimed at governing the conduct of African Americans in the 1800s.
9. A small political group that grew out of the Republican party that were committed to the freeing of slaves prior to the Civil War.
10. To officially approve, confirm or make valid.
13. grand and impressive in appearance
17. abolished slavery