Reconstruction

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

The purpose of Reconstruction was to:

• destroy the South
• rebuild and unite the country
• send former slaves back to Africa
• settle the West

The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

The word carpetbaggers means:

• A person from the Northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• the states that seceded from the Union.

• The Confederate States of America.

• a person who supported slavery.

The word Scalawags means:

• The people from the north who supported slavery.

• The states north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

• White Southerners who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstructions, usually for personal profit. Used as an insult by Southern Democrats

• The territory that was purchased from France in 1803.

An emancipated slave.

• Confederate

• Union

• Slavery

• Freedmen

NAACP: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• A civil rights organization.

• A group of soldiers from the North who fought in the battle of Fort Wagner.

• The speech that was written by Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves.

• A group of people who were supporters of slavery.

What was segregation?

• equal treatment for all people

• the forced separation of races

• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• the period of time after the Civil War

Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.

• radical

• conservative

• Union

• Confederacy

Civil Rights means:

• Abolishing slavery.

• Seceding from the Union.

• The right to own slaves.

• The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.