Vocabulary & Key Terms
The government agency created to help freed people with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He created the 10% Plan for bringing the South back.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This event in April 1865 changed the direction of Reconstruction.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
One major goal freedpeople had right after emancipation (family-related).
What is reuniting families
A farming system where workers pay landowners with a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This amendment gave citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
His Reconstruction approach let many former Confederates return to power.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This act divided the South into military districts to protect freedpeople.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
One of the biggest challenges freedpeople faced when trying to vote.
What is intimidation or violence at polling places
Laws passed in the South to control Black freedom after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment protected voting rights for Black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Union general became president and supported civil rights enforcement.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This violent group used terror to stop Black people from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Why starting schools was so important to freedpeople.
What is gaining education to participate fully in society?
Members of Congress who wanted harsh punishment for Confederates and full rights for freedpeople.
Who were Radical Republicans?
This 1866 law tried to protect freedpeople from Black Codes.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
A famous abolitionist who fought for full citizenship and voting rights for freedpeople.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This political deal ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Why sharecropping kept many Black families in poverty.
What is constant debt to landowners?
The formal process of charging a government official with wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
These laws were passed to stop groups like the KKK by allowing federal action.
What were the Enforcement Acts?
He was the first African American U.S. Senator during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Southern governments controlled by white supremacists who ‘redeemed’ the South from Reconstruction.
Who were the Redeemers?
One reason why freedpeople struggled to gain economic independence even after slavery ended.
What is lack of land, money, or resources?