key terms
Who were freedmen?
Formerly enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The president who was assassinated in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The amendment that ended slavery.
What were Black Codes?
These unfair laws limited the freedom of freedmen.
What is sharecropping?
Many freedmen worked on farms using this system.
What was Reconstruction?
The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The president who took office after Lincoln’s death.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection.
What was the Panic of 1873?
This economic crash weakened support for Reconstruction.
What is poverty?
Many freedmen struggled with this because they had little land or money.
What is sharecropping?
A farming system where workers paid landowners with part of their crops.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The group in Congress that wanted stronger protection for freedmen.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The amendment that gave Black men the right to vote.
What was fear and instability in the South?
Violence by groups like the Ku Klux Klan caused this problem.
This organization helped build schools for freedmen.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved South after the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This government agency helped freedmen and poor Southerners.
What was the military during Reconstruction?
This helped enforce laws and keep peace in the South.
What was the removal of federal troops from the South?
This event officially ended Reconstruction
Freedmen wanted this important right in government.
What is the right to vote?
What were scalawags?
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
Who were freedmen?
The group that wanted citizenship and equal rights after the Civil War.
✅ What was the Civil Rights Act?
This law helped protect the rights of freedmen.
What is lose support for Reconstruction?
Because of economic problems and violence, many Northerners did this.
Many Southerners resisted Reconstruction because they wanted this.
What is local control of government?