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