Social Studies: Chapter 16

the process of rebuilding the South after the War

• Restitution

• Reconstruction

laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people

• Black Codes

• Constitutional Codes

a federal agency set up in 1865 to help both whites and African Americans in the South

• Freedmen's Social Reform Program

• Freedmen's Bureau

US Constitutional amendment declaring the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous servitude

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

US Constitutional amendment declaring slavery unlawful

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

US Constitutional amendment that defines citizenship. In doing so, it declares African American citizens

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the civil war

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

President who ended Reconstruction in 1877

• President Andrew Johnson

• President Rutherford B. Hayes

law set forth by governmental authority

• ordinance

• decree

a pardon

• amnesty

• proclamation