Reconstruction

A process used by Congress to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.

• Pardon
• Conviction
• Impeachment
• Indictment

Official approval of a bill, turning it into a law.

• Ratification
• Enactment
• Approval
• Veto

An agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.

• Freedmen's Aid Society
• Emancipation Proclamation Relief Agency
• Liberation Assistance Bureau
• Freedmen's Bureau

This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States.

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

A constitutional amendment that gave full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for Native Americans.

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 13th Amendment

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote in political elections.

• 15th Amendment
• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

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. This kept people in a cycle of debt and being poor.

• Indentured servitude
• Sharecropping
• Tenant farming
• Slave labor

Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.

• Civil Rights Act
• Black Codes

• Emancipation Proclamation

This was built after Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act in 1862, connecting the country by rail.

• Interstate Highway
• Panama Canal
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Erie Canal

A portion of this political party wanted the federal government to force change in the south after the Civil War, taking a harsher stance.

• Moderate Republicans
• Conservative Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Southern Democrats