Chapter 2 Vocab Flashcards
the men and women who had been enslaved
Freedmen
the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
a government pardon
Amnesty
an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
Thirteenth amendment
the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
Black codes
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
Radical republicans
an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction act
an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
Fourteenth amendment
an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
Fifteenth amendment
to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official
Impeach
a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
Scalawag
a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropper
an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
Carpetbagger
a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
Ku Klux Klan
an agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
a tax required before a person can vote
Poll Tax
an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
Literacy
in the post-Reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
Grandfather clause
the legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or 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 ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
a term used to describe the south in the late 1800’s
New South
