Reconstruction Terms

3. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
6. The deadliest war in American history
7. A secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
8. Lincolns assassin.
10. An alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
12. Lincolns Vice President who became President after his death.
13. The era between the years 1865 and 1877.
14. The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance.

1. The 15th amendment gives all male U.S citizens this right.
2. 18th President who served 2 terms and oversaw the rehabilitation of Southern states.
4. Many republicans in the Legislative branch were ________ in their ideas of giving African Americans equal rights.
5. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters.
9. The 14th amendment gives all people born in the United States this right.
11. A program where land was rented out to poor farmers in return for much of their crop yield.