Texas Reconstruction Vocabulary

the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• nullify

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• black codes

an official release from punishment for a crime

• pardon

• compulsory

• carpetbagger

• Reconstruction

a temporary government

• freedmen

• compulsory

• Ku Klux Klan

• provisional government

to cancel

• nullify

• provisional government

• Reconstruction

• Radical Republican

June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• Juneteenth

• nullify

• pardon

• carpetbagger

a formerly enslaved person

• black codes

• nullify

• Juneteenth

• freemen

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

• black codes

• nullify

• pardon

• scalawag

a Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction

• carpetbagger

• Radical Republican

• scalawag

• compulsory

a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans

• Ku Klux Klan

• scalawag

• nullify

• provisional government

a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government

• Reconstruction

• pardon

• Juneteenth

• carpetbagger