Reconstruction Era

2. Amendment – Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S., including former slaves.
4. – The forced separation of races in public places.
6. Codes – Laws passed in the South after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans.
8. – The process of formally charging a government official with misconduct.
10. Tax – A fee required to vote, used to prevent African Americans from voting.
11. Revels – The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress, representing Mississippi.
13. – Former enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War.
14. – Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.

1. – A system where landowners allowed tenants (often freedmen) to use their land in exchange for a share of the crops.
3. Amendment – Guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
5. Republicans – A group of Congress members who wanted to punish the South and ensure rights for freedmen.
7. – The period after the Civil War when the Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
9. – Northerners who moved to the South after the war, often seeking profit or political gain.
12. Crow – Laws enforcing racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
15. – A pardon granted by the government, often given to former Confederate soldiers.