Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Vocabulary

The re-establishment of friendly relationships

• redo

• reconciliation

• break up

• ratification

The act of forgiving people who broke the law

• amnesty

• ratify

• veto

• consequence

laws passed during Reconstruction that severely limited the freedom of African Americans

• constitution

• blue laws

• vetos

• Black Codes

separation of races in public places

• limits

• segregation

• vetos

• bills

the period after the Civil War to reunite the nation and rebuild the South without slavery. Lasted from 1865-1877

• Guilded Age

• Westward Expansion

• Pangea

• Reconstruction

black leader during Jim Crow Era who believed vocational education was the best way to achieve racial equality. Founded Tuskegee Institute.

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells- Barnett

black leader during Jim Crow Era who believed academic education was the best way to achieve racial equality. Founded NAACP.

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Ida B. Wells- Barnett

set up by Congress after the Civil War to help poor Southerners of all races. Helped build public schools, find jobs, resolve disputes

• Congress

• General Assembly

• Freedmen's Bureau

• House of Delegates

What amendment gives US citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US and guarantees equal protection of the law (excluded American Indians)

• 1st

• 14th

• 15th

• 13th

What amendment ended slavery in all states and territories except as a punishment for criminal activity.

• 1st

• 14th

• 15th

• 13th