Liberty or Death

6. Federal agency created to help former slaves with food, education, labor contracts, and legal support.
9. Amendment thatofficially abolished slavery in the United States in 1865.
10. White Southern Democrats who claimed to “save” their states by ending Reconstruction and Black political power.
11. Amendment that said the right to vote could not be denied because of race or former slavery.
13. 1866 1866 law that first defined African Americans as U.S. citizens and protected their basic civil rights.
14. Amendment that created birthright citizenship and promised “equal protection of the laws.”
15. 1872 law that restored political rights to most ex-Confederates.

1. 1873 Supreme Court ruling that limited how much the Fourteenth Amendment could protect citizens’ rights.
2. Harsh Southern laws after the Civil War that tried to keep freedpeople under white control.
3. 1871 law targeting Klan terrorism that allowed martial law and suspension of habeas corpus in parts of the South.
4. 1870–71 “Force Acts” that let the federal government crack down on voter intimidation and Klan violence.
5. 1867 laws that put the South under military rule and required new constitutions and Black male voting rights.
7. Political deal that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
8. Secret white supremacist group that used terror to stop Black people from voting and holding office.
12. Supreme Court case that said the Fourteenth Amendment did not let the federal government punish private mob violence against Black citizens.