Reconstruction Vocabulary
This is a pardon granted to a group of people.
What is amnesty?
These were members of Congress who wanted strong protections for freedpeople.
What are Radical Republicans?
This was Lincoln's plan allowing a Southern state to rejoin the Union once 10% of its voters swore loyalty to the United States.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This year marked the end of Reconstruction.
What is 1877?
This means to formally charge a government official with wrongdoing.
What is impeach?
This was a Northerner who moved South after the war, often to take part in politics or business.
What is a carpetbagger?
These were laws passed by Congress in 1867 that divided the South into five military districts
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
This amendment, ratified in 1870, said the right to vote could not be denied because of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Southern states passed these laws to restrict the rights and movement of freedpeople.
What are Black Codes?
This was the period from 1865 to 1877 when the United States worked to rebuild the South and reunite the nation after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This was a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
What is a scalawag?
This 1877 agreement made Rutherford B. Hayes president and led to the removal of federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This amendment, ratified in 1868, made people born in the United States citizens and promised equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This farming system kept many freedpeople trapped in poverty because they worked land they didn't own for only a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This was a system in which a farmer worked someone else's land in exchange for a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This federal agency provided food, medical care, and education to freedpeople.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Congress passed these laws in 1867, dividing the former Confederacy into this many military districts.
What is five or what are five military districts?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were ratified during this time period.
What is Reconstruction?
The removal of these from the South in 1877 ended Reconstruction.
What are federal troops?
These were Southern laws that restricted the rights and movement of freedpeople
What are Black Codes?
One group was Northerners who moved South after the war; the other was white Southerners who supported Reconstruction. Name both terms.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
One plan required only 10% of voters to swear loyalty; another approach by Congress divided the South into military districts. Name both.
What are the Ten Percent Plan and the Reconstruction Acts?
One amendment abolished slavery in 1865, another granted citizenship and equal protection in 1868, and a third protected voting rights in 1870. Name all three in order.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Radical Republicans opposed President Johnson's plan because they wanted this type of protection for freedpeople, which his plan lacked
What are strong protections or stronger protections?