Amendment
13th Amendment
Ended slavery in the U.S.
Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Suffrage
The right to vote
Reconstruction was the first time Black Americans could participate in this activity.
What is voting
Many freedpeople lacked this resource, which made economic independence difficult.
what is Land
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship & equal protection.
Segregation
Separation of people by race
Freedmen/Freedpeople
Formerly enslaved people who gained freedom.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Government agency that helped freedpeople
Name three Southern United States
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote
Jim Crow Laws
Laws enforcing segregation in the South
Citizenship
Legal membership in a country
Who was part of Congress?
Radical Republican
Why did Reconstruction collapse?
The North stop support the cause.
Black Codes
Laws limiting rights of African Americans.
Sharecropping
Farm system trapping freedpeople in debt
Vagrancy Laws
Laws targeting unemployed African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Group that used violence to stop Black rights
When the Reconstruction Era Begin?
1865
What year did Congress pass the 13th Amendment?
January 1865
Disenfranchisement
Taking away voting rights.
Equal Protection
Laws must treat everyone fairly
Radical Republicans
Wanted equal rights and strong Reconstruction laws
Why did some Southern states pass Black Codes after the Civil War?
Restrict African American freedom and control Labor