Reconstruction

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  1. 2. Laws in the South that enforced segregation and discrimination
  2. 4. Constitutional amendment that gave Black men the right to vote
  3. 6. Areas of the South controlled by the U.S. Army during Reconstruction
  4. 8. President who planned for lenient Reconstruction but was assassinated in 1865
  5. 9. Deal that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South
  6. 11. Federal laws created to stop KKK violence and protect voting rights
  7. 13. Members of Congress who wanted strict Reconstruction and full rights for freedpeople
  8. 15. Money owed to others, often trapping sharecroppers in poverty
  9. 18. The Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
  10. 20. Location in Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant in 1865
  11. 22. Farming system where workers gave a share of crops to landowners in exchange for using land
  12. 23. Government agency created to help former slaves with food, schools, and legal aid
  13. 25. Vice president who became president after Lincoln and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction
  14. 26. Formerly enslaved African Americans freed after the Civil War
  15. 28. The right of citizens to participate in elections
  16. 29. Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law
  17. 30. Period after the Civil War when the U.S. tried to rebuild the South and reunite the nation
  18. 31. Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
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  1. 1. Belief that white people are superior and should control society
  2. 3. Promise to give land and tools to freedpeople that was later taken away
  3. 5. Religious centers that also served as community and political meeting places for freedpeople
  4. 7. The act of leaving or breaking away from the United States
  5. 10. Laws passed in the South to restrict the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War ReconstructionActs Laws dividing the South into military districts to enforce new rights and laws
  6. 12. Legal requirement that the government must respect all rights owed to a person
  7. 14. Secret group that used violence to keep white control and stop Black progress
  8. 16. Principle that laws must apply the same to all people
  9. 17. Rights guaranteeing personal freedoms and equality under the law
  10. 19. The Northern states that fought to preserve the United States in the Civil War
  11. 21. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress
  12. 24. Separation of people by race in schools, housing, or public places
  13. 27. Legal membership in a country with rights and responsibilities