Reconstruction Intro

2. a law passed by southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves
3. a former slave
5. elected governor over a Democratic candidate, former Confederate General John B. Gordon
9. an amendment banning slavery
10. an amendment where the U.S. cannot deny a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
12. a series of laws that divided the previously Confederate states into military districts
13. an insulting term used to describe a northern who moved to the south after the civil war
14. a white southerner who worked with the republican party and the reconstruction government after the civil war

1. an organization formed by African Americans throughout the south after Reconstruction to protect their rights
3. an amendment made all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. including former slaves citizens of the country
4. African- American who was very influential as a religious leader and Georgia politician.
6. one of the white politicians who took power after Georgia was readmitted to the Union in 1872
7. a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war
8. the system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised
11. terror group created by former Confederate soldiers that used violence and intimidation tactics to disenfranchise blacks