Reconstruction Vocabulary

The period after the Civil War in which focus was on rebuilding the South

• Antebellum

• Reconstruction
• Suffrage

• Freedmen's Bureau

Passed in 1865, the amendment outlawed slavery

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people.  African Americans could not own guns, meet after sunset, could be jailed if they were unemployed.

• Impeachment

• Slave Codes
• Amendments
• Black Codes

A federal agency set up in 1865 to help both whites and African Americans in the South

• Freedmen's Bureau
• NAACP
• Crop Lien

• Ku Klux Klan

A change in a bill or law

• Impeach
• Amendment
• Compromise

• Modification

This amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

System of agriculture used in the South with former slaves. Farmers would give a portion of their crops to the landowner in exchange for use of the land.

• Debt Cycle

• Cash Crops

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

Slaves who were freed after the Civil War were known as

• Yankees

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

• Scalawags

A secret hate group society of who used intimidation to return political power to white men and limit the rights of African Americans and Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Radical Republicans

To accuse and charge a government official with wrongdoing

• Scalawag

• Suffrage

• Impeach
• Tattletale