Reconstruction Flashcards
What time did reconstruction start and end
1865-1867
define amnesty
forgiveness for any crimes committed
Lincoln’s ten percent plan
10 percent of the population could vote for the new government
freedmen
former slaves
freedmen’s bureau
provided food, clothing, medical care for the poor, set up schools, gave some jobs in the school to freedmen
Andrew Johnson
Vice president that came president when Abraham died
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Amnesty was given to former Confederates, and Southern states were allowed to elect representatives to U.S. House
13th amendment
abolished slavery in US
black codes
helped control the newly freed African Americans
Civil Rights Act
it ruled African Americans were not citizens protection rights
14th amendment
born in the US and established that all citizens are equally protected under law
Define impeachment
The process of bring formal charges against a public official
15th amendment
Gave voting rights to African Americans Men
scalawags
Former confederates who held resentment against those who had been pro-union
carpetbaggers
whites from the North who traveled South after the war
Ku Klux Klan
Group used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women
Sharecropping
a system where landowners rented land to sharecroppers, or farmers, and seems to replace slavery
poll taxes
fee required for voting
literacy tests
these were used to qualify people for voting
segregation
is separation of the races
Jim Crow laws
it separated African Americans and whites from almost every public place like bathrooms and resturants
lynching
in which angry mobs killed people by hanging them.
Sharecropping
System in the South that seems to replace slavery by having a person rent land from a landowner in exchange for a percentage of the value of the crop that person farms
Radical Reconstruction
A plan divided the South into 5 military districts, worked to give rights to freedmen, and took away power from former Confederates
