Reconstruction

2. period of rebuilding the South following the Civil War
6. a means of denying voting rights because it required potential voters to read once again excluding most African Americans
8. to unite, or blend into a united whole
11. Federal agency that was designed to help former slaves following the Civil War
12. abolished slavery in the United States
14. granted full U.S. citizenship to former slaves
15. secret society that used fear and violence to deny rights to freed African American men and women

1. separation of people based on race
3. a fee white Southerns required for voting that many African Americans could not afford to pay
4. granted suffrage to African American men
5. laws designed to help control newly freed African Americans
7. Northerns who moved to the South following the Civil War
9. laws allowing people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction; effectively excluding African Americans
10. dishonest and illegal actions
13. Southern laws designed to separate blacks and whites