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- 3. Klux Klan secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
- 5. tax tax required before a person can vote
- 6. test examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
- 8. of 1877 a deal that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president as long as he promised to withdraw troops from the South, this event ended Reconstruction
- 11. person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
- 12. Percent Plan Lincoln’s plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
- 15. Republican member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
- 16. Crow Laws laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
- 17. legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
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- 1. Amendment an 1868 amendment that guarantees citizenship rights to freed slaves
- 2. derogatory term given to white Republicans in the south who supported Reconstruction
- 4. codes Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
- 7. Bureau government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
- 9. uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
- 10. Bill an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy
- 13. Amendment an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans to the right to vote because of race
- 14. Amendment an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation