Reconstruction Amendments & Vocabulary
This 13th Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution abolished this system of forced labor throughout the country.
What is slavery?
The primary overall goal of Reconstruction (1865–1877) was to readmit these states back into the Union.
What are Confederate States?
Under this farming system, a tenant farmer paid their rent to a landlord using a share of these instead of cash.
What are crops?
Passed in the South immediately after the war, Black Codes barred African Americans from owning firearms, traveling freely, and exercising this key right.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This constitutional amendment grants citizenship to everyone born in the United States and promises equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This political group in Congress wanted to punish former Confederate states and ensure equal rights for African Americans.
What are the Radical Republicans?
Sharecropping trapped many formerly enslaved African Americans in a continuous cycle of this economic struggle
What is debt?
Passed in the South immediately after the war, Black Codes barred African Americans from owning firearms, traveling freely, and exercising this key right.
What is voting rights?
The 15th Amendment guaranteed that citizens could not be denied this right based on their race.
What is the right to vote?
President Andrew Johnson angered many Northerners by offering amnesty and pardons to these wealthy Southern figures.
Who are former Confederate officials / wealthy Southerners?
This government agency helped newly freed African Americans find missing family members, gain literacy, and negotiate labor contracts
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This terror tactic involved an unlawful mob executing someone by hanging
What is lynching?
Former rebels used this derogatory term to describe white Southerners who supported Republicans and Reconstruction efforts.
What is a scalawag?
Rutherford B. Hayes became president after promising to remove federal troops from the South in this 1877 political deal.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This type of farmer rents and lives on land owned by a landlord
What is a tenant farmer?
White supremacist groups like the White League and this hooded organization used violence to terrorize African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This term refers to former slaves who were freed after the Civil War.
What are Freedmen?
Compared to Abraham Lincoln's plan, the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction differed by being much more harsh toward this group.
Who are former Confederates / Southern states?
Rebuilding physical destruction, supporting freedmen, and readmitting Southern states were major challenges at the end of this war
What is the U.S. Civil War?
Once federal troops were removed from the South at the end of Reconstruction, Southern governments began taking away black citizens' rights and doing this to public spaces.
What is segregating them?