Reconstruction Vocabulary Review

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Reconstruction

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the time period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states

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Ten Percent Plan

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President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction

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Segregation

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the forced separation of people of different races in public places

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Freedmen’s Bureau

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an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South

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  Thirteenth Amendment

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(1865) a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery

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Fourteenth Amendment

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(1866) a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians

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Fifteenth Amendment

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(1870) a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

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Black Codes

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laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

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Radical Republicans

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members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union

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Reconstruction Acts

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the laws that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment