Reconstruction Vocabulary

The amendment that freed all slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The amendment that granted African-American men the right to vote. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Laws passed directly after the civil war that restricted former slaves' freedom. 

• black codes
• jim crow laws
• reconstruction laws
• 14th amendment

laws enforcing racial segregation

• black codes
• jim crow laws
• reconstruction laws
• scalawags

renting farm land and paying for that land with a share of the crops. 

• sharecropping
• scalawaging
• carpetbagging
• reconstruction

A government organization put in place to support former slaves in getting a food, home, education, etc. 

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• KKK

A white southerner who supported the North during reconstruction (meaning they behaved poorly, badly, in a harmful way)

• reconstructor
• Klan member
• Scalawag
• Carpetbagger

Someone from the North who moved south after the civil war to support reconstruction

• carpetbagger
• scalawag
• Klan Member
• Radical Republican

The process of getting the country back to one piece after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Reloading
• Remodeling
• Refinishing