Lesson 23 Reconstruction Era

The period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union

• Era of Good Feelings

• Reconstruction

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States

• Bill of Rights

• 18th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Congress

• ACLU

• Freedmen's Bureau

Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law

• Civil Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Amendments

• Divine Rights

A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law

• Congress

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 28th Amendment

A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave

• 20th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Congress

• 14th Amendment

Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Constitution

• Napoleonic Code

True/False: After the passage of the 13th Amendment which, abolished slavery, African Americans were automatically treated equal to whites?

• True

• False

True/False: President Johnson and Congress did not agree on how to approach Reconstruction, so much so that he was impeached?

• True

• False