Reconstructing America, 1865–1877

The __________ provided 160 acres of free land in the West to anyone who made improvements on it for five years.

Strikes and organizations by sugar workers over the conditions and terms of their employment set the stage for broader organizing by the __________.

Blacks saw __________ as a means to gain a better job and be able to read the Bible.

Some blacks chose to become __________ because it gave them some control over their daily work lives, while others were forced to because of a lack of land and other work options.

During the 1870s, the __________ attacked and intimidated blacks across the South in a successful effort to reduce their political power.

The __________ extended the Emancipation Proclamation and made it a part of the Constitution.

The __________ included bans on interracial marriage and blacks' access to the judicial system.

Women's suffrage advocates were outraged because the __________ did not grant the vote to women.

In some cases, more cooperation between husbands and wives replaced __________ after the Civil War.

Johnson vetoed a bill to extend the __________ for a year, but Congress overrode his veto.

Courts in Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee ruled that sharecroppers' crops belonged to the land owner, taking away the farmers' __________.

In 1865, the unfolding drama of the __________ led white Southerners to worry that a similar uprising might occur in the United States if they did not gain more control over the freed people.

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