People
Northern politicians/businessman who went to the south to profit off of reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Tactic used by the KKK to get what it wanted from black people
Violence, intimidation, fear
This was Lincoln's plan for reconstruction
10% plan
Group of Congressmen who were vehemently opposed to the South and thought they should be punished
Radical Republicans
Former Slaves
Freedmen
Claim by the white race that they were better than blacks
White Supremacy
This was established to give an education to former slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
Laws passed by southern states to keep black people in a form of slavery
Black Codes
Southerners who tried to help the Union in Reconstruction
Scalawags
This amendment freed the slaves
13th
This group/movement were not happy with the 15th amendment
Women's Suffrage
Political party to which most southern whites belonged after the civil war
Democrat
This President removed all Southern troops from the South
This amendment gave black men the right to vote
15
This marked the end of Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
The most extreme version of Reconstruction where the South was divided into 5 districts
Military Reconstruction
People who farmed another person's land and got a share of the crop
Sharecroppers
This amendment gave former slaves citizenship
14
The name for a law that violates the constitution
Unconstitutional
Procedure that President Johnson used to prevent the passage of many bills into laws
Veto