Fall Final Flashcards
Laws passed by states denying many rights of citizenship to free blacks before civil war
Black codes
Landowners furnished laborers with a house, farm animals, and tools in exchange for crop
Sharecropping
Order by general william t Sherman to set aside abandoned land along the southern Atlantic
Field order no. 15
Agency established by congress to provide social, educational, economic service to former slaves and poor whites
Freedmen’s bureau
Amendment, guaranteed the right of all men to vote
15th amendment
Amendment, prohibited states from violating the civil rights of citizens and gave them to choice of allowing blacks to vote
14th amendment
Congressional settling of the 1876 election that placed Rutherford b Hayes in the white house and have’s democrats control of states governments in the south
Compromise of 1877
Southern democrats who wrested control of governments in the former confederacy, often through electoral fraud and violence
Redeemers
Perhaps the most prominent of the vigilante groups that terrorized black people
KKK
Pejorative term to describe northern transplants to the south,any who were union soldiers
Carpetbaggers
Southern whites, mainly small landowning farmers and well off merchants and planters who supported the southern Republican Party during reconstruction
Scalawags
The phrase many white southerners applied to their civil war defeat
Lost cause
Amendment that freed all slaves
13th amendment
Gave union commanders the right to seize slave property as their armies marched
Second confiscation act
Liberated only those slaves who had directly assisted the confederate war
First confiscation act