Reconstruction

3. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
5. an act of calling into question the integrity or validity of something
7. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
9. the 7th US President
12. their goal of immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery in the United States
13. he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.

1. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
2. to provide for the admission to representation of rebel states upon meeting certain conditions
4. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way, a rascal.
6. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
8. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
10. provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
11. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;