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| a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen (freed slaves) |
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| When re-building and reinstatement occured |
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| It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation |
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| Johnson presided over the Reconstruction era of the United States in the four years. His tenure was highly controversial as his positions favoring the white South came under heavy political attack from Republicans. |
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| laws passed on the state and local level in the United States to limit the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans |
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| a secret vigilante group, the Klan reacted against Radical Republican control of Reconstruction by attempting to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans |
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| provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held that slaves and their descendants were not citizens of the United States and were not entitled to Constitutional rights |
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| prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| was a negative term Southerners gave to opportunistic Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era |
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| a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land |
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| one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord |
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| Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South |
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