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- 4. test an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
- 6. the legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
- 7. an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
- 9. Amendment an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
- 10. of 1877 an agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876
- 13. Republican a member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
- 14. Bureau a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
- 15. klux Klan a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
- 16. Amendment an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
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- 1. tax a tax required before a person can vote
- 2. Amendment an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
- 3. a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
- 5. Percent Plan the Reconstruction plan endorsed by Lincoln 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
- 6. a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
- 8. Crow Laws laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
- 11. 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
- 12. codes the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War