Reconstruction Vocabulary

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.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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

• A secret society started by a group of Confederate Veterans

  that became an unofficial military force focused onreversing 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.

Black Codes

• Union reconstruction plans

• The spine-tingling battle cry that Confederate troops became known for.

• Honor codes amongst confederate soldiers

• aka Jim Crow Laws, were passed with the intent of restricting African American rights and freedoms.

Sharecropping

• When a farmer that rents land has to give part of his crops to landowner as rent payment.

• Shared responsibility of the crops on a farm.

• Term used for taking care of your crops.

• A strong defensive position.

laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

•  Sovereign
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Juneteenth
• Black Codes

the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas 

• Ordinance
• Juneteenth
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction

a formerly enslaved person

• Freedman
• Vigilante
• Radical Republican
•  Ku Klux Klan