This ended slavery in the United States.

This gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people.

This gave formerly enslaved men the right to vote.

This was the year in which American Indians legally became citizens of the United States.

He felt that it was more important to reconcile with the South than to punish them.

17th President of the United States; became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was the first President to be impeached, but he wasn't found guilty or removed from office

These laws limited the movement and economic freedom of formerly enslaved people.

He believed that segregation was okay, and thought that a vocational education was the key to eventual equality for African Americans.

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to take advantage of the disorganized situation in southern states

important city in the Midwest region; home of the meat-packing industry

Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles

Santa Fe and San Antonio

The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

This was passed right after the Civil War and was supposed to give African Americans equal rights in the South.

Deal that settled the 1876 presidential election; Hayes was given the presidency in exchange for ending Reconstruction by removing Federal Troops from the South.

To deprive or prevent someone of the right to vote.

deals with the money and resources of people, businesses, and governments

A compromise over the outcome of this event is what ended Reconstruction, and federal troops left the South the next year.

Issued by Lincoln in 1862, freeing all enslaved people in areas still at war with the United States.

The U.S. government sent them to the Southern states to make sure they followed the news laws during Reconstruction.

These people were not allowed to hold any governmental positions during Reconstruction.

He was a former slave who fought for human rights and wanted constitutional voting rights for African Americans.

This organization was created at the end of the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people.

Fought against lynching and the many other injustices suffered by African Americans, publicizing the lynchings in newspaper articles and other writings.

These laws segregated the people of the South in the government, education, housing, and employment. Signs in public told the "colored" and "white" people where they could go.

A secret organization that uses terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the United States

The illegal killing of people by gangs of violent vigilantes; occurred in all parts of the country and sometimes against accused white people, but mostly targeted African Americans in the South; meant to intimidate African Americans from asserting themselves in any way, including politically; were often conducted publicly and with the cooperation of law enforcement.

Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld Jim Crow segregation by approving "separate but equal" public facilities for African Americans. Made segregation legal in the United States.

This is when you separate people based on their skin color or ethnic group/race.

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was too lenient to the South.

This word means "to get back together and be friends".

the time between 1865-1877 when the southern states' economy and society were supposed to be rebuilt and rejoined to America

He encouraged Southerners to reconcile with the North at the end of the Civil War. He went on to become the president of Washington College.

These were Southerners who agreed with the Northern Reconstruction. They were generally disliked by other Southerners.

Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado

He believed in full civil, social, and political rights for African Americans.

A test administered as a condition for voting, often used to disenfranchise African Americans

A requirement that citizens pay money in order to vote; often used to disenfranchise African Americans

Invented by Joseph Glidden, it allowed farmers to fence their land without using a lot of wood

allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction; used to disenfranchise African Americans