US Reconstruction

5. Laws that legalized racial segregation
8. Affirmed the equality of all men before the law and prohibited racial discriminations in public
10. a group formed to deny equal rights to African Americans and anyone working to help them by using violence and terror
11. An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offences
12. established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former enslaved people and
14. The system where the landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
15. Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh reconstruction policy towards the south.
16. Granted African American Men the right to vote

1. declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens
2. Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to all African Americans
3. A poll or head tax is a tax applied equally on all adults at the time of voting and is not affected by property ownership or income
4. An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 us presidential election
6. the act of rebuilding something after it has been broken
7. Restricted black people's rights to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land and move freely through public places
9. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
13. whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.