Vocabulary
The process of rebuilding the south after the Civil War ended.
Reconstruction
Formerly enslaved people were called
Freedmen
This organization was set up to help formerly enslaved people gain housing, medical care, employment, and protect their voting rights.
The Freedmen's Bureau
This president was assonated at the start of Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
This law freed all the slaves in the USA.
13th Amendment
Military Districts
The first Black congressman
Joseph Rainey
A group of congressmen who wanted full rights for former slaves.
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
This law states that all people born in the United States are automatically citizens of the United States.
14th Amendment
Someone who works a farm and is paid by being given a share of the crops
Sharecropper
This woman became a successful dressmaker, who had Mary Todd Lincoln as one of her customers
Elizabeth Keckley
A group of prejudiced, white southerners who used violence to keep Black men from voting.
The Ku Klux Klan or KKK
He was the first president to be impeached by congress.
Andrew Johnson
15th amendment
A northern person who exploited southerners for his own profit.
Carpetbagger
He was the first Black Senator elected.
Hiram Revels
This is the political party that was formed to end slavery.
Republican Party
When the presidential election of 1876 did not produce a clear winner, this man was given the presidency in exchange for removing Union soldiers from the south.
Rutherford Hayes
Congress passed this law to define the rights of citizenship, to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
A southern person who supported Reconstruction
Scalawag
This is the man who almost won the 1876 presidential election.
Samuel Tilden
This political party had more electoral votes in the election of 1876, but their candidate did not become president.
Democratic Party
He was elected president in 1868. He was also a civil war general for the Union, and he's on the 50 dollar bill.
Ulysses S. Grant (not on the test)
This law is being challenged by the Trump administration in the present.
14th amendment. (No, this is not on the test)