Soc. St. Ch. 17 Set 2

Nickname given to many Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans

White supremacist group started during Reconstruction, used fear and violence to intimidate African-Americans in the South, burned homes, schools, churches, and murdered African-Americans

Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and freedmen, seen as traitors to other Southerners

Guaranteed equal protection of the law to all citizens of the U.S., states would lose their representation if they didn't allow all eligible voters the right to do so

Ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color or previous condition of servitude

System used on Southern farms after the Civil War, tenants worked on land owned by landowners and in return paid a portion of their crops, resulted in debt and poverty for many African-Americans

A fee to pay to vote