Period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.

Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War.

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals.

Prejudicial treatment.

Law giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

To bring a group together after it has been divided.

Set up to educate newly freed African Americans.

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

To execute, by hanging, without lawful approval.

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

To divide into parts and distribute

Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population.

The state of being extremely poor.

A disadvantage or inconvenience.