Reconstruction Vocabulary

Compromise of 1877

• Agreement made after the president election of 1876 that allowed Hayes to become president as long as federal troops were removed from the South, ended Reconstruction.

• Compromise that would allow the Confederacy to keep some enslaved people as long as they rejoined the Union.

• abolished slavery in the United States.

• Established that the right of citizens of the United States to vote should not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

14th amendment

• Abolished slavery in the United States.

• Protects freedom of speech, religion, and press.

• Gave citizenship to all persons born or "naturalized" in the United States and provides those citizens equal protection under U.S laws.

• Established that the right of citizens of the United States to vote should not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

13th Amendment

• Protects freedom of speech, religion, and press.

• Abolished slavery in the United States.

• Gave citizenship to all persons born or "naturalized" in the United States and provides those citizens equal protection under U.S laws.

• Established that the right of citizens of the United States to vote should not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

15th amendment

• Gave citizenship to all persons born or "naturalized" in the United States and provides those citizens equal protection under U.S laws.

• Protects freedom of speech, religion, and press.

• Abolished slavery in the United States.

• Established that the right of citizens of the United States to vote should not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Freedmen's Bureau

• Organization established in 1865 by Congress to help

  former black enslaved people and poor whites in the South.

• Bureau that former enslaved people had to register with to obtain their freedom.

• Organization that promoted the abolition of slavery.

• Organization that was established to help in rebuilding and reconstructing the Union post Civil War.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• Organization established in 1865 by Congress to help former black enslaved people and poor whites in the South

• A secret society started by a group of Confederate Veterans

  that became an unofficial military force focused on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities

• A groups of abolitionists that worked hard to promote the anti-slavery cause throughout the United States.

• People that describe themselves as not extreme or excessive in their political views

Radical Republicans

• Group of representatives that were very extreme with their views and believed the government should be tougher on the South for leaving the Union.

• People that describe themselves as NOT excessive or extreme in their political beliefs.

• A northerner who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era to take advantage of the unsettled conditions (to make money).

• Southerners that wanted the northerners to leave the South and allow the southern states to rule themselves.

Moderates

• A groups of abolitionists that worked hard to promote the anti-slavery cause throughout the United States.

• People that describe themselves as not extreme or excessive in their political views

• Southerners that wanted the northerners to leave the South and allow the southern states to rule themselves.

• A group of railroad workers that aided in the reconstruction of railroads across the North and South.

Scalawag

• People that describe themselves as not extreme or excessive in their political views

• Southerners that wanted the northerners to leave the South and allow the southern states to rule themselves.

• A groups of abolitionists that worked hard to promote the anti-slavery cause throughout the United States.

• A term used to ridicule a white Southerner who collaborated

  with northern Republicans during Reconstruction.

Carpetbagger

• A term used to describe a wealthy elite who provided poor folks in the south with money during the Reconstruction era.

• A person who traveled around the North and South selling carpet to the wealthy elites to turn a profit.

• A northerner who moved to the south during the Reconstruction era to try to take advantage of the unsettled conditions

• A term given to former enslaved people who were now eligible citizens of the United States.