The Reconstruction

2. were a political faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854
3. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
7. Bill of 1864 (H.R. 244) was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government," proposed for the Reconstruction of the South.
8. prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
10. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
11. 17th President of the United States
13. provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war

1. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
4. (1861-1900) the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems, was a time of significant transformation within the United States.
5. an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War
6. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
9. charge a holder of a public office with misconduct
12. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.