Reconstruction in Alabama

proclamation made by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people in the Confederate states during the Civil War

• abolish

• Reconstruction

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Black Codes

an amendment to the US Constitution that ended slavery throughout the country

• 13 Amendment

• 14 Amendment

• 15 Amendment

• Black Codes

white Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• infrastructure

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• abolish

basic systems a society needs in order to function

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• abolish

• infrastructure

to bring to an end; to do away with

• carpetbaggers

• abolish

• scalawags

• infrastructure

an amendment to the US Constitution that prohibited the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

• 13 Amendment

• 14 Amendment

• 15 Amendment

• Black Codes

period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• infrastructure

• Black Codes

• Emancipation Proclamation

laws that limited the rights of African Americans

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the South and supported Reconstruction

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• abolish

• infrastructure

an amendment to the US Constitution that defined citizenship and extended US citizenship to former slaves. It also prevented states from restricting the basic rights of citizens or other persons.

• 13 Amendment

• 14 Amendment

• 15 Amendment

• Black Codes