Reconstruction Vocabulary

laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

•  Sovereign
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Juneteenth
• Black Codes

a formerly enslaved person

• Freedman
• Vigilante
• Radical Republican
•  Ku Klux Klan

a secret group of white men that used violence and terror against African Americans 

• Radical Republicans
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Scalawags

The amendment that freed all slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The amendment that granted African-American men the right to vote. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

laws enforcing racial segregation

• black codes
• jim crow laws
• reconstruction laws
• scalawags

renting farm land and paying for that land with a share of the crops. 

• sharecropping
• scalawaging
• carpetbagging
• reconstruction

A government organization put in place to support former slaves in getting a food, home, education, etc. 

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• KKK

A white southerner who supported the North during reconstruction (meaning they behaved poorly, badly, in a harmful way)

• reconstructor
• Klan member
• Scalawag
• Carpetbagger