These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of those who had just endured the horrors of slavery and were currently freed by the winning of the Civil War
What are Black Codes
What is the 15th Amendment?
Prohibited states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
This group was organized to help people who were formally held in bondage against their will (forced into slavery) with food, medical care, resettlement, and education. Note: the Freedman's Bureau also helped poor White people.
What is Freedmen's Bureau
What is the 14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S., guaranteed due process of law, and established equal protection under the law. This directly overturned the Dred Scott decision.
This is the Radical Republican's response to the 10% Plan which required a majority of the citizens to take an oath of allegiance to join the Union
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
This is the term White Southerners gave to White Northerners who moved to the South to benefit from the devastated economy.
What are carpetbaggers
What did the 1857 Dred Scott decision explicitly rule?
The Supreme Court ruled that African people whether enslaved or free were not citizens and had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect"
The period in time in which the southern states had to ratify the 14th amendment in order to join the Union
What is Radical Reconstruction
This group supported white supremacy and terrorized, and killed African living in the south.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
This amendment outlawed slavery
What is the 13th amendment