Unit 2 vocab Reconstruction

Lincoln's lenient plan for reconstruction, required this amount of southern voters to pledge loyalty

• 10% plan

• 14th amendment

• grandfather clause

Abolished slavery

• 15th amendment

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

Declares that all persons born in the US are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• 14th amendment

• Reconstruction act

• 13 amendment

A general pardon for an offense against a government

• black codes

• literacy test

• Amnesty

A Southerner from Tennessee, as VP when Lincoln was killed he became president. First US president to be impeached

• Andrew Johnson

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedman

A federal agency set up to help former enslaved people

• grand father clause

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow laws

Members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

• Andrew Johnson

• scalawags

• Radical Republicans

Rebuilding of the South after the Civil war with the goal reuniting and repairing damages

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

• Grand father clause

Northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction

• impeach

• Carpetbaggers

• Sharecroppers

During Reconstruction, white southerners who resisted change

• conservatives

• scalawags

• Carpetbaggers