Unit 9: Reconstruction Vocab

A pardon is also known as

• Fault

• Amnesty

• Blame

• Penalty

Passed in 1865, this amendment outlawed slavery

• 15th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 13th amendment

• 16th amendment

Lincoln’s VP who became President after Lincoln's assassination. He also did very little to help Reconstruction

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

to charge someone with wrongdoing

• impeach

• convict

• testify

• blame

laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people. African Americans could not own guns, meet after sunset, could be jailed if they were unemployed

• Uncle Tom's Codes

• Black codes

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Passed in 1870. This amendment declared that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Bill of 1866

President Lincoln was affiliated with what political party?

• Democrat

• Republican

• Independent

• Socialist

This president withdrew troops from Southern states after the nation was united. Took away protection from African Americans.

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Civil War

• Scalawag

• Abolitionist

• Carpetbagger

a secret society of ex-Confederates who used intimidation to return political power to white men

• Illuminati

• Mason Society

• Ku Klux Klan

• Confederate Party