Reconstruction (Gabriel)

3. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War
10. citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election
11. a pejorative term for a 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.
13. he practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color
14. packed all of their belongings into a bag and moved south.
15. Black man has the right to vote
20. first African American member of the United States Senate
21. the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed

1. The bills were largely written by the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress.
2. southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters
4. 17th president
5. declared that anyone born in the United States was now a citizen, without regard to race, color, or previous condition
6. emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.
7. killed Abraham Lincoln
8. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
9. provided food, shelter, clothing, medical service, and land
12. a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction
16. when the banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company, a firm heavily invested in railroad construction, closed its doors on September 18, 1873, a major economic panic swept the nation.
17. ended slavery
18. an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses
19. affirmed the “equality of all men before the law” and prohibited racial discrimination in public places and facilities such as restaurants and public transportation.