Vocab Quiz Chapter 9 Flashcards
The men and women who had been enslaved
Freedmen
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
A government pardon
Amnesty
A government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
Freedmen’s Bureau
An 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
13th amendment
The southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
Black Codes
A member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
Radical Republicans
An 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
14th amendment
An 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction act
To bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official
Impeach
An 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
15th amendment
A white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
Scalawag
An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
Carpetbagger
A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
Ku Klux Klan
A person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropper
An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
Compromise of 1877
A tax required before a person can vote
Poll Tax
An examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
Literacy text
In the post-Reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
Grandfather clause
The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
Segregation
Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
Jim Crow laws
An 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
A term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry
“New South”
