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| The process of readmitting the former Confederate States back into the U.S.; and the rebuilding of the South which lasted from 1865-1877. |
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| Second Vice President under Lincoln. He became president of the U.S. after Lincoln's assassination. He was impeached in 1867. |
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| Laws passed in Southern states which limited the rights of freed slaves. |
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| The rights granted to all citizens. |
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| Proposed by Congress in 1866, this amendment stated that anyone born in the U.S. was a citizen and that all citizens have the same rights & equal protection of the law. |
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| An economic system where farmland is rented by a tenant in exchange for a portion of the harvest as payment. |
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| When a mob kills a person on the spot as a punishment for a supposed crime; frequently used by the Ku Klux Klan. |
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| Ratified in 1870, this amendment granted suffrage to black men. |
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| An economic depression blamed on the Republicans which resulted from the failure of several banks and railroad companies; lasted until 1878. |
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| Solved the dispute over the election of 1876 by making Hayes president in exchange for removing U.S. troops from the South, ending Reconstruction. |
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