Reconstruction Vocabulary

a temporary government

• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Provisional government
• Radical Republican
• Ordinance

laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

•  Sovereign
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Juneteenth
• Black Codes

a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction 

• Scalawag
• Ku Klux Klan
• Radical Republican
• Reconstruction

to cancel

• Reconstruction
• Vigilante
• Freedman
• Nullify

the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas 

• Ordinance
• Juneteenth
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction

. a member of a volunteer committee organized to punish criminals 

• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Black Codes
• Vigilante
• Provisional government

a formerly enslaved person

• Freedman
• Vigilante
• Radical Republican
•  Ku Klux Klan

an official release from punishment for a crime 

• Nullify 
• Ordinance
• Pardon 
• Juneteenth 

the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Sovereign
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Reconstruction 
• Emancipation Proclamation

helped freed people find jobs and issue food 

• Pardon
• Ordinance
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen’s Bureau