Chapter 17 Reconstruction Vocabulary

______________________________ Agency established by Congress to provide relief for all poor people in the South

• Freedmen's’ Bureau

• segregation

• carpetbaggers

• Redeemers

______________________________ Official pardon for all illegal acts

• Reconstruction

• Amnesty

• Redeemers

• Compromise of 1877

______________________________Made slavery illegal throughout the United States

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

_____________________________ System of farming in which labor and a portion of the crop were exchanged for land, tools and supplies.

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• segregation

• sharecropping

_____________________________ Name given to white southern Republicans by southern Democrats

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• sharecropping

• Redeemers

_____________________________ Established the principle of “Separate but equal”

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

_____________________________ Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places

• Black Codes

• Poll Tax

• segregation

• Jim Crow

____________________________ Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized within the United States with the exception of American Indians

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

___________________________ Gave African American men throughout the United States the right to vote

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Amnesty

___________________________ Name given to northern-born Republicans who came South after the war.

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• sharecropping

• amnesty