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- 2. Allowed Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people
- 3. after the American Civil War, a pejorative (negative) 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
- 5. Change to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country, including formerly enslaved people.
- 7. 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
- 9. Enacted in 1867–68 this outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War
- 10. A change to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
- 12. formerly enslaved people who, in the south, after the Civil War, were often left without money, land, jobs, or education
- 13. A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction by taking advantage of unsettled conditions and political corruption.
- 14. a post-Civil War secret society favoring white supremacy, often carrying out organized terrorist attacks on formerly enslaved people
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- 1. Change to the Constitution that gave the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall no matter what race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- 4. the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the Union after the American Civil War
- 6. Laws passed in 1865 - 67 that restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces. A central element was vagrancy laws. States criminalized men who were out of work, or who were not working at a job whites recognized.
- 8. a farmer who works land for a landlord in return for a share of the crop
- 11. Agency set up to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, especially newly freed African Americans.