2024 Flashcards
The men and women who have been enslaved
freedmen
The rebuilding of the south after the Civil war
Reconstruction
A government agency founded during reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
a government pardon
amnesty
an 1865 amendment to the United States constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.
Thirteenth amendment
The southern law that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil war
black codes
a member of the Congress during reconstruction who wanted to take power from wealthy southern plantation owners
Radical Republicans
An 1867 amendment to the United States constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
fourteenth amendment
An 1867 law that threw out the southern states government that refused to ratify the 14th amendment.
reconstruction act
To bring charges of serious wrong doing against a public official.
impeach
An 1869 amendment to the United States constitution that forbids any state to deny African American right to vote.
Fifteenth amendment
a white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction
scalawag
an uncomplimentary nickname for a northern who went to the south after the Civil war
carpet bagger
a secret society organized in the south after the Civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violents.
Ku Klux Klan
A person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of a crop
share cropper
An agreement by Ruthford.B Hayes to end reconstruction in return congressional democrats accepting his inauguration for president.
compromise of 1877
an exam to see if a person can read and write.
literacy test
In the past Reconstruction South a law excused a voter from a test if their grandfather vote on January 1st 1867
grandfather clause
The legal separation based on race and other differences
segregation
Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south
Jim Crow laws
an 1896 court case in which the supreme court that segregation in public facilities was legal as long the facilities were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
a tax required before people can vote
polltax
A term used to describe the south in the 1800s when effort were made to expand the economy.
“new south”
