Reconstruction Vocabulary

Political, economical, and social rebuilding of the United States back into one country after the Civil War

• Reconnection
• Reconstruction
• Demolish

Political group that organized Reconstruction after the Civil War.

• Democrats
• Independent
• Radical Republicans

Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction for profit. (carried things in a carpetbag)

• Beggars
• Carpetbagger
• Scalawag

A Southerner who cooperated with reconstruction to make money

• Carpetbagger
• Scalawag
• Republican

Lincoln's statement of freedom for all slaves.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Bill of rights
• Constitution

A former slave

• Freedman
• Slave
• Farmer

Amendment that made slavery illegal

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Amendment that gave citizenship to freedman.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Amendment that gave the right to vote to citizens of all races (men)

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Farmer who lives and works on land that he does not own

• Tennant Farmer
• Illegal Farmer
• Scalawag