Reconstruction

4. To officially approve something, like a new law or amendment to the Constitution.
6. Passed in 1870, this amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
8. The idea that the government must follow fair procedures when dealing with a person's legal rights.
12. A negative term used by Southerners for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, often to seek profit or political power.
13. Rights The legal right of citizens to vote in political elections.
14. A insulting term used by Southerners for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and worked with Republicans.
16. This change to the Constitution officially ended slavery in the United States in 1865.

1. The practice of owning people as property and forcing them to work without pay.
2. A group of Republicans who wanted to give equal rights to freed slaves and punish the South after the Civil War.
3. The period after the Civil War (1865-1877) when the U.S. government tried to rebuild the South and bring it back into the Union.
5. A government agency created after the Civil War to help former enslaved people and poor white Southerners. It provided food, housing, medical aid, and education.
7. A group of people who have the power to make laws for a country or state.
9. This amendment, added in 1868, gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S., including former slaves. It also promised equal protection under the law for all citizens.
10. Strong loyalty to a particular region of the country, often causing conflict with other regions.
11. The movement to end slavery in the United States.
15. The main set of rules for how the United States government works.