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- 3. Also called Black Codes, these southern laws were designed to control freedmen and their descendants, as well as help plantation owners take advantage of their former slaves.
- 5. Adopted in February 1870, this addition to the Constitution guarantees the right to vote regardless of race.
- 8. Formerly enslaved people who were freed after the US Civil War.
- 9. When a farmer gives a part of the crops he or she grows to their landlord as a form of rent payment.
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- 1. Former rebels used this negative term to describe white southerners who supported Republicans and Reconstruction.
- 2. The time period (1865-1877) following the US Civil War when the defeated southern states were rebuilt.
- 4. When an unlawful mob puts someone to death by hanging them, often mutilating the body afterwards.
- 5. Adopted in January 1865, this addition to the Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
- 6. A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
- 7. Adopted in July 1868, this addition to the Constitution grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and protects civil and political liberties.