WW2 Flashcards
Radical
Extreme
Amnesty
A pardon
Freedmen
Former enslaved people
Black codes
A series of laws aimed to control freed men and women and enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers
Override
To defeat
Impeach
To formally charge with wrongdoing
Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding the south after the civil war and the various plans for accomplishing the rebuilding
Freedmens bureau
An agency to help former enslaved people
Lincoln’s assassination
Shot in fords theater by John Wilkes booth
Vice President
Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln’s assassination.
Thirteenth amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States
Fourteenth amendment
Granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States
Fifteenth amendment
Granted African American males the right to vote
Scalawags
Scoundrels or worthless rascals
Carpetbaggers
They moved south with cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric
Ku klux klan
Organization to oppose African Americans rights
Sharecroppers
African Americans who couldn’t afford to buy their own land worked as sharecroppers
Integrated
Included both whites and blacks together by law
Reconciliation
Restoring the relationship
Amnesty act
Passed by congress in May 1862
Commission
A group of 7 republicans, 7 democrats, and 1 independent
Literacy test
Required for voters in some states
Poll tax
Was a fee for voters to pay
Cash crops
Growing crops for profit.
