Unit 9:Reconstruction

3. laws that enforced racial segregation in the untied states from the post-civil war era until the 1960s.
6. a white southerner who collaborated with the northern Republicans during reconstruction,often for personal profit.
11. a person from the northern states who went to the south after the civil war to profit from the reconstruction.
13. the rights of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced.
14. a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials.
16. laws passed in the southern united states after the civil war to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.
17. Males could vote regardless of color(gave Suffrage to African Americans).
19. to reject;to refuse a law made by the legislature.
21. the rights of all people to social,economic,and political freedom and equality.
22. a Republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the civil war.
23. the right to vote.

1. a fixed sum levied on all persons.
2. 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.
4. a system that keeps different groups separate from each other,normally through social pressures and/or laws.
5. a proposal by president Abraham lincoln to readmit confedrate states to the union.the plan was based on the idea that 10% of a state's 1860 voters must swear loyalty to the union.
7. agreement between southern Democrats and the reppublicans to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the reconstruction era.
8. rising to an important position.
9. murder usually under secret attack for political reasons.
10. abolished slavery.
12. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights,privileges, and protections to all people.
15. the period of rebuilding social, economic, and political systems after the civil war.
18. the status of being a legal citizen of a country and entitled to certain rights.
20. defined U.S.citizen,which receives due process and equal protection under the law.