Reconstruction Vocab

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• bans slavery

• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• gave black men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal

• granted citizenship and equal protection

• gave black men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal

• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• gave all men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• equal treatment for all people

• laws that enforced segregation

• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• the period of time after the Civil War

Agency providing relief to freed people and certain poor

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation

• Free Food Bureau

• Jobs and Education Bureau

• Freedman's Bureau

Laws that enforced segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Grandfather Codes

• Integration Laws

How was President Lincoln killed?

• heart failure
• bit by a snake
• falling off a horse
• shot by John Wilkes Booth

Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmens Bureau

• 15 Amendment

Northerners who came to the south after the civil war. Southerners felt they were taking advantage of the South

• Carpetbaggers

• Abraham Lincoln

• Vacationers

• Black Codes

One of the most disputed presidential elections in American History between Tilden and Hayes

• Election of 1876

• Election of 2009

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 15th Amendment