Reconstruction Unit Flashcards
What is reconstruction
The process of rebuilding southern states after the civil war
Kkk
First terrorist group, anti reconstruction, violent hate group
13th amendment
Slavery illegal
14th amendment
Prevents laws from being passed that discriminate or take away rights, born americans are citizens, no deprivation of life liberty or property
15th amendment
All men right to vote
Freedmans bureau
Us government established during reconstruction to help and support freedmen
Sharecropping
Tenant farmers let freedmen work land for crops
Jim crow laws
Segregational laws
Used to work against reconstruction
Black codes
Laws passed to ensure cheap labor and go against african americans
Carpetbaggers
People who moved south and bought property for profit
Scalawag
Whites who supported reconstruction
Impeach
Charge with crime or misdemeanor
Freedmen
African americans freed after civil war
Ten percent plan
10 percent of voters pleaded allegiance to US new constitutionand state government
Wade davis
States abolish slavery
Give blacks suffrage
Majority of voters take oath to allegiance
No high ranking confederates in new state government
Johnson plan
Confederates pardoned if sworn loyalty states need to ratify 13th amendment
Radical republican plan
Suffrage
13th and 14th amendment added to constitution
New election
No former officials allowed in office
Johnson impeachment
First impeachment
Democrat
Pardoned ex rebels
Anti reconstruction
Suspended
Almost removed
Difference between black codes and jim crow laws
Jim crow laws made segregation and were anti reconstruction
Post civil war
Black codes were laws making labor cheap and making it bad for them
Pre civil war
How were freedmens lives improved after reconstruction
3
No more slavery
Could vote
Laws against racial discrimination
3 ways southerners tried to stop reconstruction
Lynchings
Jim crow laws
Segregation
