Vocab Study Flashcards
vocab study for tests (15 cards)
freedmen
the men and women who had been enslaved
Reconstruction
the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Amensty
a government pardon
Freedmen’s Bureau
A government agency founded during reconstruction to help former slaves
Thirteenth amendment
an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
Black codes
the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
Radical republican
a member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
fourteenth amendment
an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
impeach
to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official
reconstruction act
an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth amendment
an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
Scalawag
a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
ku Klux klan
a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
carpetbagger
an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
sharecropper
a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
