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Banned slavery
13TH AMENDMENT
Laws that severely limited the rights of freed African Americans
BLACK CODES
Rented and farmed a plot of land in exchange for share of the crop at harvest time, each year they sank deeper into debt
SHARECROPPING
Required voters to pay a fee each time they voted, many freedmen could afford to pay
Separation of races
SEGREGATION
Bring formal charges against (accuse of a wrongdoing)
IMPEACH
White southern Republicans
SCALAWAGS
Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution, most freedmen couldn’t read
LITERACY TEST
If your father or grandfather could vote before 1867, you didn’t have to take the test. No freedmen’s father or grandfather voted
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
Had the 10% Plan - A southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the US.
LINCOLN
Defined citizens as “all persons born or naturalized in the US.”
14TH AMENDMENT
White southern Republicans who came from the North.
Reformers who wanted to help the freedmen succeed in their new lives.
Some came to profit from the rebuilding of the South
CARPETBAGGERS
Used its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North
NEW SOUTH
Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal
PLESSY v FERGUSON
Government pardon
AMNESTY
Won the Presidential election of 1868
ULYSSES S GRANT
Worked to keep Africans and white Republicans out of office.
Dressed in white robes and hoods to hide their identities.
Klan members murdered hundreds of African Americans and their white allies.
KU KLUX KLAN
Restored the right to vote to nearly all white southerners, including former confederates
AMNEST ACT (1872)
Forbids any state to deny any citizen the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
15TH AMENDMENT
The physical, political, and social rebuilding of the south
RECONSTRUCTION
Divided the southern states, that seceded into 5 military districts, to rejoin the union, former confederate states had to write new constitutions and ratify the 14th AMENDMENT, and allow African Americans to vote.
RECONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1867
Nation’s first black senator
HIRAM RHODES REVELS
Democrats supported the commission and allowed Hayes to be President. Hayes and the Republicans removed the remaining federal troops from the south, ending Reconstruction
Required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the union and denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered for the Confederacy.
WADE-DAVIS BILL