vocab
Reconstruction
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
The black codes
loophole of limiting African Americans from owning guns, making them sign work contracts, and basically letting them go back into slavery
he main goals of Radical Reconstruction
What is wanting African Americans to have the same rights as other citizens?
The court case that allowed segregation, planting the idea of "seperate but equa
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
Carpetbaggers
Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the war
The plan to get the Confederate States back into the Union
Reconstruction
What was the Freedmne's Bureau?
A government agency aimed to help African American citizenship and freedom. Also to grant them food, education, medical care, jobs, and connect them back to their family that was sold off.
Impeachment
The process to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
What is the KKK
The group that terrorized African Americans to stop their newly gained rights that Congress gave them
What is the panic of 1873
Why did Northern support of Reconstruction decline
Segregation
Forced separation of whites and African Americans.
What was Poll Tax
A loophole to restrict African Americans from using their newly gained voting rights by causing voters to pay and African Americans couldn't afford it or their grandfathers could not vote.
What is Scalawags
The name Southerners gave to White Republicans
Scalawags
The name Southerners gave to White southern Republicans.
What was the Civil Rights act of 1866
The Act that gave African Americans secure citzenship
The name given for Northerners who moved into the South to profit off of Reconstruction
What were Carpetbaggers?