Reconstruction Vocabulary

These Laws were passed DURING reconstruction to limit the rights of newly feed slaves.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction Restrictions

• Civil Rights Laws

This is another name for Northeners who moved to the South to take advantage of Reconstruction.

• Rug Sellers

• Storm Troopers

• Carpetbaggers

• Yankees

This law gave African Americans equal rights, it also allowed for Northern Troops to supervise the South

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866

• The Voting Rights Act

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Booker T Washington

This Amendment gave all Citizens the right to Vote

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This amendment banned slavery

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This amendment granted citizenship to anyone born into the United States or Naturalized into the United States.

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This is an agency established in congress in 1865 to help poor people in the south

• Freedman's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ku Klux Klan

These are laws that enforced segregation in Southern states and legalized discrimination after Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• The Freedman's Bureau

• the 14th amendment

Period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to rebuild the southern states and reunite the nation

• Reconstrution

• Antebellum

• Civil War

• the roarin' 20s

His reconstruction plan called for reconciliation. He believed in preservation of the union.

• Lincoln

• Davis

• Jefferson

• Jackson