Reconstruction Vocabulary Review

This Amendment abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

This Amendment “Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves." It also granted citizens equal protection under the law.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Southern states passed laws after the Civil War that denied African Americans basic rights. What were these known as?

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Law and Order

• Black Codes

This was the rebuilding of the southern states after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• 14th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

This term is used to describe a person who takes extreme political positions.

• Moderate

• Radical

• Democrat

• Republican

This means average.

• Radical

• Moderate

• Democrat

• Republican

People from the North who moved to the South after the Civil War.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Presidents

• Republicans

A white southerner who supported the Union and the Reconstruction. Often times, ex-Confederate soldiers. Some thought of them as traitors.

• Scalawag

• Carpetbagger

• Republican

• Radical

To charge a public official with doing something wrong.

• Secede

• Secession

• Impeach

• Arrest