Reconstruction Vocab

The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union.

• Recall

• Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson

• Prohibition

Congressional Republicans who, after the Civil War, wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and to give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote.

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

• Radical Republicans

• Hiram Revels

Federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.

• Freedom rider

• Freedom Summer

• Free Speech Movement

• Freedmen's Bureau

Discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South which severely restricted African Americans' lives.

• black codes

• blacklist

• Black Panthers

• Black Tuesday

Amendment to the Constitution that makes all persons born or naturalized in the US citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws.

• 5th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Amendment to the Constitution that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves.

• 15th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 16th Amendment

A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

• bootlegger

• sharecropper

Secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the Civil War.

• ISIS

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ku Klux Klan

• Kristallnacht