Reconstruction Vocab

Officially ended slavery in the United States

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Defined national citizenship and forbade states from restricting the basic rights of citizens.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Granted African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Group of congressman who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War.

• Radical Republicans

• Moderate Democrats

• Abolitionists

• Free Soil Party

Northerner who moved to the South to make a profit

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Sharecroppers

• Carpetbaggers

Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Abolitionists

• Sharecroppers

The Freedmen's Bureau issued state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern states after Reconstruction ended.

• True

• False

"Paying" formerly enslaved people with food and housing that was not much different than slavery itself is known as sharecropping.

• True

• False

"Corrupt bargain" between Democrats and Republicans that ended Reconstruction.

• Compromise of 1877

• The Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Helped millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War

• 14th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping