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- 1. Most ___ voters joined the Republican Party—the party of Lincoln and emancipation.
- 3. was elected with the help of half a million votes cast by Black men.
- 5. President Johnson was accused by Congress of violating the ___ of Office Act.
- 7. change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race, or because the person was once enslaved.
- 10. In 1870 and 1871, Congress passed three laws to combat violence against Black Americans known as the _____ Acts.
- 11. laws enforcing segregation of Black and White people in the South after the Civil War.
- 12. the Freedman's Bureau built more than 1,000 _____.
- 15. the right to ____ allowed formerly enslaved peoples to keep a family record.
- 17. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
- 19. rented their land from plantation owners.
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- 2. The conventions met and wrote new _____ for their states.
- 4. The ____ Act allowed most former Confederates to vote once again.
- 6. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
- 8. the period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union as the federal government addressed the impact of slavery
- 9. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law.
- 13. About a ____ of the South’s new officeholders were Black men.
- 14. Congress reorganized the South into five military _____.
- 16. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection of the law.
- 18. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of Black Americans