reconstruction

4. A person freed from slavery.
5. Amendment that gave voting rights to all African American men.
7. Laws passed in the South, just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen.
8. A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote.
9. An insulting word for Northerners who moved to the South after the war.
10. Amendment that officially abolished slavery in all parts of the U.S. after the Civil War.
11. A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by voters to read and write at a specified level.
13. Plan that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.
14. System of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner, who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.

1. The rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War.
2. The freeing of enslaved people by the authority that held them.
3. To end separation of different races and bring into equal membership in society.
6. Amendment that granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people.
12. Insulting name for white southerners who supported reconstruction efforts.