Reconstruction Flashcards
What is a Scalawag
Southerners who supported Reconstruction
What is the 13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery in 1865
What are Black Codes
Laws that denied African Americans many Civil Rights
What is the 15th Amendment
Laws that denied African Americans many civil rights
What is Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding after the Civil War, during which the Southern States rejoined the Union
What is KKK
A discriminatory group formed during the Reconstruction Era that terrorized and threatened African Amerians
Who is Andrew Johnson
Became President following Lincoln’s assassination and survived being impeached by only one vote in the Senate
What is Emancipation Proclomation
Statement issued by president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in Confederate states still at war with the Union
Freedman’s Bureau
Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide foods, schools, and medical care to free slaves in the South
Jim Crow Laws
Laws passed in the South alter Reconstruction enforcing the segragation of Blacks and Whites
CarpetBaggers
Northeners who moved South to start a business, often arriving with belongings in suitcases made of carpet
Sharecropping
System of farming in which farmers rent land and pay the land owner with a share of the crops they raise
Segregation
Separation of people of different races
14th Amendment
Gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law
Impeachment
Bringing of charges of wrong doing against an elected official by the House of Representatives
