Final Vocab Flashcards
reconstruction plans
US the period after the Civil War when the South was reorganized and reintegrated into the Union (1865-77)
reconstruction amendments
The Reconstruction amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution
black codes
These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting Black people’s freedom
carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved to the south
scalawags
scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War
radical republicans
Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates
tenure of office act
intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate
freedmen
A freedman is a former slave who has been released from slavery
sharecroppers
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops
freedmans bureau
U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen
plessy vs ferguson
upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal”
WEB Duboise
Founded NAACP
Booker T Washington
Washington was of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery
Ida B Wells
woman’s suffrage movement
Homestead Act
several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a “homestead”, at little or no cost
