Reconstruction Time Period Review

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Reconstruction

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The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in the United States.

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14th Amendment

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Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws.

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15th Amendment

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Prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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Freedmen's Bureau

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A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.

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Black Codes

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Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans.

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Radical Republicans

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A group of Republican Congressional members who believed in the complete abolition of slavery and equal rights for African Americans.

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Andrew Johnson

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17th President of the United States, who succeeded Lincoln and was the first American president to be impeached (he was one vote shy of being removed).

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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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The process in 1868 when the House of Representatives charged President Johnson with high crimes and misdemeanors, leading to a trial in the Senate.

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Carpetbaggers

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Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction, often accused of trying to take advantage of southerners.