The rebuilding of the south after the civil war…

The reconstruction plan endorsed by Lincoln that allowed a southern state to form a new government after ten percent of its voters swore on oath of loyalty to the United States…

A government pardon…

An 1864 plan for reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the confederacy…

A government agency founded during reconstruction to help former slaves…

An 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation…

An 1868 amendment to the United States constitution that generates equal protection of the laws…

An 1864 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race…

The southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the civil war…

A member of congress during reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote…

A period beginning in 1867 when the republicans, who had control in both houses of congress, took charge of reconstruction…

An 1867 law that that tree out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment…

To bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official…