Reassessment Unit 2: Reconstruction Era Vocabulary & Key Terms

This outlawed slavery for everyone and everywhere (required majority in congress to propose and then required state ratification)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

Granted citizenship to all persons born in the US and guaranteed them equal protection under the law

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

Ensures all citizens in the U.S. have the right to vote, regardless of race or color or previous condition of servitude (though it was not always enforced at local level)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

Formal pardon or forgiveness for political offenses (in this context, forgiveness for participating in a rebellion against the US)

• Abolition

• Amnesty

• Autonomy

• Allegiance

being in control of your own life, freedom, moral independence; self-governing (something former slaves spoke about)

• Abolition

• Amnesty

• Autonomy

• Allegiance

Local laws in Southern states right after the Civil War (during first 2 years of reconstruction under President Johnson) that severely limited the rights of all black people and former slaves and tried to undermine the 13th Amendment

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction Codes

• Peonage

(Typically southern) laws that separated whites and blacks and existed from the late 1800s through the 1960s - could also be referred to as "de jure segregation"

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction Codes

• Peonage

Separation of groups that happens because of fact, circumstances, or customs (ex: neighborhood segregation)

• De Jure Segregation

• De Facto Segregation

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Separation of groups that happens because of law (ex: laws requiring racially segregated public schools)

• De Jure Segregation

• De Facto Segregation

• Literacy Test

• Grandfather Clause

Money required of voters in some Southern states - disproportionately applied to black voters, which could prohibit their ability to vote

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Vagrancy

• Grandfather Clause