Topic 9 Flashcards
Freedmen
The men and women who had been enslaved.
Reconstruction
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil war.
Amnesty
A government pardon/ excuse.
Freedom’ s Bureau
A government’ s agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.
13th Amendment
An 1865 amendment to the us constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.
Black Codes
The Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the war.
Radical Republicans
A member of congress during reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freed men received the right to vote.
14th Amendment
An 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the 14th amendment.
Impeach
To bring charges of seriously wrong doing against a public official.
Scalawag
A white southerner who supported the Republicans during the reconstruction
Carpetbagger
An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War.
Ku Klux Klan
A seceret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
Share Cropper
A person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms if in exchange for a share of the crop
Compromise of 1877
An agreement by republican presidential candidate Ruthe frord B/ Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as president after the dusputed election of 1876
poll tax
A tax required before a person can vote (dd)
Literacy
An examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights.
Grandfather clause
in the past Reconstruction south a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote by 1/1/1867.
Segregation
The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south.
Plessy V. Ferguson
An 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal.
