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officially abolished slavery in the United States
What was the 13th Amendment?
dishonest or illegal actions
What is corruption?
Rebuilding the Southern States economy and infrastructure after the Civil War
What was Reconstruction?
lasted from 1865-1867, laws that prevented freedmen from actually being free.
What were Black Codes?
a term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry
What was the New South?
Taxes required before a person could vote
What was a poll tax?
Andrew Johnson's swear-in date
What was April 15, 1865?
group of people did that secret societies, such as the KKK, wanted to stop from voting
Who were Freedmen?
gave free African American men the right to vote
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
He did not agree with the Radical Republican's aggressive ideas of handling Reconstruction in the South
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction
What were scalawags?
gave former slaves and free African Americans, United States Citizenship
What was the 14th Amendment?
laws that separated whites from blacks, disallowed integration in schools, had separate restaurants, water fountains, and spots on buses
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Andrew Johnson's 1866 tour to support Congressmen who were against the 14th amendment
What was "swing around the circle"?
the cycle of poverty that many freedmen and poor whites were locked into during the Reconstruction, where they borrowed land and supplies on credit and would pay their debt by their harvest?
What was sharecropping?
Northern Congressmen who wanted full political equality and to regulate the Southern Government stricter than what was in place.
What were Radical Republicans?
an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
What were literacy tests?
divided the South into 5 military districts
What were the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
What were Carpetbaggers?