Reconstruction Era

5. Guaranteed African-American men the right to vote
6. To charge with a crime or misconduct.
8. He was the seventeenth president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869 after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
10. Its goal is to immediately, completely, and permanently eradicate slavery in the United States.
11. The white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
12. The first African American to serve in the Senate, was elected in 1870 by the Mississippi State
13. The historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems

1. A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
2. To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
3. It is one of the post-Civil War amendments, and includes, among others, the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.
4. Pejorative political name, and was originally applied after the Civil War to northerners who moved to the southern states, between 1865 and 1877.
7. It required 50 percent of a state's white men to take an oath of allegiance to the United States (and swear that they had never helped the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union.
9. They were bodies of laws established at the level of the state governments of the United States, as internal legislation, intended to set limits on the citizen rights of the black ethnic population.