Vocab Learning Contract

5. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
7. examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements
8. granted African American men the right to vote
11. the rule book for a state
14. the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender
15. provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
16. the idea that a governmental body may not deny people equal protection of its governing laws

1. arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
2. abolished slavery
3. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land.
4. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.
6. in U.S. history, the period (1865–77)
9. a participatory member of a political community
10. were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
12. a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual, without reference to income or resources
13. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election