chapter 9 Flashcards
a government pardon
amnesty
a person freed from slavery
freedman
a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
freedman bureau
the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
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
an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
Fifteenth Amendment
an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
Fourteenth Amendment
to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official
Impeach
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 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 Kaln
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
