Reconstruction

Reconstruction

• A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers (especially freed slaves) worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

• A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.

• the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

• Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Freedmen's Bureau

• Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

• After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.

• a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson

• Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

• 17th President of the United States, A Southerner from Tennessee, V.P. when Lincoln was killed, became the 17th president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.

• 19th president of the united states, was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history

13th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers (especially freed slaves) worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

• Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

• A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

14th Amendment

• A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers (especially freed slaves) worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

• abolished slavery

• an American general and the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

• Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

15th Amendment

• A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

• Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or previous condition of servitude. (allowed African American males the right to vote)

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.

• Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Black Codes

• Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

• A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

• the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

• a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Scalawags

• A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.

• a white Southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used negatively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.

• A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

• Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Carpetbaggers

• a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote

• abolished slavery

• A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

• an American general and the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

• A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers (especially freed slaves) worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

• Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War