Reconstruction Flashcards
John Wilkes Booth
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Exodusters
Name given to African Americans that Benjamin “Pap” Singleton led to Kansas
Rutherford B. Hayes
President elected in 1876 who ended Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
President after Abraham Lincoln. Didn’t have the reputation or the power to take over such a situation.
Amnesty
Government pardon
Black Codes
Laws only for African Americans
- without jobs they were arrested
- can’t have a job that requires a skill
- can’t vote, own a weapon, or serve on a jury
- cannot attend public school
- if they can’t pay fines, must work for someone who can
- did grant marriage, owning property, getting paid for work, and seeing in court
Segregation
Separation of the races
Sharecropper
Person who rents land and pays off rent with a portion of their crop
Impeach
To formally accuse a Government official of a crime, to remove from office
Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
Grants citizenship to all Americans
Guarantees equal protection under the law to all races
Overturns all black codes
Fifteenth Amendment
States cannot deny the right to vote based on color, race, or previous conditions of servitude
Grandfather clause
Excused voter from literacy test if their father or grandfather could vote
Jim Crow legislation
Laws that segregated the races
Plessy v. Ferguson
A Supreme Court case that ruled separate facilities are legal if equal
Radical Reconstruction
They wanted to prevent former confederates from regaining power, and protect the Freedmen. Each state must elect new state government and ratify the 14th amendment
Sharecropping
African Americans were locked in a cycle of poverty by landowners who cheated them. This was a form of economic slavery
