Reconstruction

1. The laws that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment.
7. a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of the economic opportunities there.
10. wanted to punish the South for the Civil War and give/protect blacks civil rights.
13. To forgive or pardon an act
15. laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
16. the act of freeing someone (from slavery).

2. a system in which former slaves worked on white owned land and gave a portion of their crops to the landowner in exchange for housing and supplies.
3. The practice of separating people based on race or ethnicity, typically enforced through laws or social customs.
4. a secret society formed in the South after the Civil War that used violence and intimidation to try to keep African Americans from gaining equal rights.
5. laws that were passed in the South after Reconstruction that enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
6. A federal agency established in 1865 to provide assistance to newly freed slaves and poor whites in the South.
8. President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction; once some former Confederate state took a U.S. loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be readmitted to the Union.
9. the period of time after the Civil War when the United States was trying to rebuild and reunite after the war.
11. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction and worked with the Republicans to rebuild the South.
12. The rights guaranteed to all citizens by law, including the right to vote, the right to equal treatment under the law, and the right to freedom of speech and assembly.
14. the name given to former slaves after they were freed.