Reconstruction Vocabulary

A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.

• Reconstruction

• Radical Democrat

• Black Codes

• Radical Republican

A temporary government.

• Pardon

• Nullify

• Provisional Government

• Compulsory

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

• Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scalawag

• Carpetbaggers

A formerly enslaved person.

• Black Codes

• Scalawag

• Carpetbagger

• Freedman

To cancel.

• Pardon

• Nullify

• Juneteenth

• Freedman

Required.

• Pardon

• Nullify

• Compulsory

• Carpetbagger

June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Junetwo

• Juneteenth

• Juneninth

A white southerner who supported Reconstruction.

• Carpetbagger

• Freedman

• Black Codes

• Scalawag

An official release from punishment for a crime.

• Reconstruction

• Pardon

• Compulsory

• Nullify

Laws limiting the rights of African-Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.

• Black Codes

• White Codes

• Freedman

• Slaveman