Amendment
13th Amendment
Ended slavery in the U.S.
Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Suffrage
The right to vote
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship & equal protection.
Segregation
Separation of people by race
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote
Freedmen/Freedpeople
Formerly enslaved people who gained freedom.
Citizenship
Legal membership in a country
Freedmen’s Bureau
Government agency that helped freedpeople
Black Codes
Laws limiting rights of African Americans.
Sharecropping
Farm system trapping freedpeople in debt
Vagrancy Laws
Laws targeting unemployed African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Group that used violence to stop Black rights
Jim Crow Laws
Laws enforcing segregation in the South
Disenfranchisement
Taking away voting rights.
Equal Protection
Laws must treat everyone fairly
Radical Republicans
Wanted equal rights and strong Reconstruction laws