unit 9 Reconstruction

4. the right of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced.
8. laws passed in the southern united states after the civil war to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.
10. the period of rebuilding social,economic,and political systems after the civil war.
14. a system of beliefs and practices in which white people are considered to be superior to people of other racial backgrounds that is maintained through discrimination.
16. a proposal by president Abraham Lincoln to readmit confederate states to the union.the plan was based on the idea that 10% of a states 1860 voters must swear loyalty to the union.
18. to reject;to refuse a law made by legislature.
20. murder usually under secret attack for political reasons.
21. a fixed sum tax levied on all people.
22. the right to vote.
23. the rights of all people to social,economic, and political freedom and equality.

1. a system that keeps different groups separate from each other,normally through social pressures and/or laws.
2. defined u.s. citizen,which receives due process and equal protection under the law.
3. the status of being a legal citizen of a county and entitled to certain rights.
5. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights,privileges,and protections to all people.
6. a person from the northern states who went to the south after the civil war to profit from the reconstruction.
7. a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials.
9. abolished slavery.
11. a republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the civil war.
12. males could vote regardless of color (gave suffrage to African Americans.)
13. rising to an important position.
15. agreement between southern democrats and the republicans to settle the results of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the reconstruction era.
17. a white southern who collaborated with northern republicans during reconstruction,often for personal profit.
19. laws that enforced racial segregation in the united states from the post-civil war era until the 1960s.