Topic 7 Key Terms

3. an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
4. for a particular purpose
6. tax required before a person can vote
7. person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
13. an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation
15. Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
16. government pardon
18. an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
19. secret society organized in the South by Southern Democrats after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence

1. legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
2. an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
3. members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote.
5. an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
8. a term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry
9. the men and women who had been enslaved.
10. Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south
11. white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
12. the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
14. an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
17. to interfere in order to stop or change something