Key terms
Post Civil War
Post Civil War
Rebuilding--and a name given to the period post Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The basic physical systems or inner workings of a place.
What is an infrastructure?
This amendment gave freed slaves the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
A group in Congress that wanted to punish the South after the Civil War
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This case denied a freed slave citizenship
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
A negative term to refer to Northerners who had moved South
What are carpetbaggers?
A farming system where poor farmers worked farms owned by others in exchange for some of the harvest.
What is sharecropping?
This amendment freed the slaves by abolishing slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
A government agency that helped formally enslaved people and poor whites in the South by providing food, education and medical care.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This case ruled that racial segregation was legal
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Formally charging a government official with misconduct.
What is impeach?
The term used to describe the South's consistent support of the Democratic Party after Reconstruction ended
What was the Solid South?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, press and religion.
What is the First Amendment?
Laws passed in the South after the Civil War that limited rights and the freedoms of the African Americans in the South.
What were the Black Codes?
A law passed to protect African Americans' right to vote.
What is the Enforecement Act of 1870?
A method used for the President to not take action, and let an act of Congress expire.
What is a pocket veto?
A negative term used by Southern Democrats to describe white Southerners who supported the Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
This amendment established the fact that freed slaves were citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction ended.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
This case overrode the existence of segregation, implementing integration.
What is Brown v Board of Ed?
An agreement that ended Reconstruction
What was the Compromise of 1877?
A law that required the President to issue military orders through an Army general
What is the Command of Army Act ( of 1868)?
This is how many amendments there are.
What is 27?
A white supremacist terrorist group that used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights
What was the KKK?
This agreement ended Reconstruction.