Recon - Vocabulary Flashcards
Reconstruction
Process of repairing
Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery , only a slave as a punishment for committing crime.
Freedman
Used to be inslaved
Freed Bureau
U.S. federal gov agency in 1865 to aid freedmen
Andrew Johnson
17th president who took after Lincoln
Pres reconstruction
Implemented a plan of reconstruction that gave the white south a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to the blacks in the politics of the south.
Radical Republicans
Uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the civil war.
Black Codes
Restrictions against African Americans to restrict them after the amendments placed
Congressional Reconstruction
Seized control of AJ
Civil Rights Act
No segregation
14th Amendment
Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws
Due process
Fair trail
15th Amendment
Right to vote
Impeachment
Accusing the president of something
Carpetbagger
(South perspective)
North coming down taking resources
Scalawag
Southerners helping northerners
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Minister of a African Methodist Episcopal Church
“New South”
Economic shift
Developing into industrial
Share-Cropping
Allows tenants to use the land in return for share of crop
Debt peonage
Worker pay off debt
KKK
White supremacy group
Literacy tests
Reading test given to those ex slaves so they would be excluded from voting
Poll tax
A fee for voting
“Jim Crow Laws”
Segregation
