Reconstruction Vocabulary

Groups

100

Reconstruction

Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

200

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

 Group that used violence to stop Black rights

300

Radical Republicans

Wanted equal rights and strong Reconstruction laws

400

Freedmen’s Bureau

Government agency that helped freedpeople

500

 Freedmen/Freedpeople

Formerly enslaved people who gained freedom.  

Vocabulary

200

Equal Protection

Laws must treat everyone fairly

300

Segregation

 Separation of people by race.

400

Citizenship

Legal membership in a country

500

Sharecropping

 Farm system trapping freedpeople in debt

Laws

200

Suffrage

The right to vote.

300

Vagrancy Laws

 

 Laws targeting unemployed African Americans.

400

Disenfranchisement

 Taking away voting rights

500

Jim Crow Laws

 Laws enforcing segregation in the South

Freedom Laws

200

13th Amendment

 Ended slavery in the U.S.

300

15th Amendment:  

15th Amendment: Granted African American men the right to vote.

400

14th Amendment

 Granted citizenship & equal protection.

500

Black Codes

 Laws limiting rights of African Americans