8.1 Reconstruction Vocab

After the Civil War, the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting the former Confederate states into the Union.

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Rebuild

• Restart

The granting of a pardon to a large number of people; protection from prosecution

• Pardon

• Constitution

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Amnesty

Laws passed in the South after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and women and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers.

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• American Codes

• American's Bureau

Ratified in January 1865, it abolished slavery in the United States.

• 16th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendement

March 1865, Lincoln and Congress created this to help African Americans adjust to life after slavery.  Providing food, clothing, medical care, schools, and helping freedmen obtain their own farm land.

• Freedmen's Plan

• Johnsons Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Lincolns Plan

This extended the Civil Rights Act of 1866.  This amendment guaranteed citizenship to all African American men, and entitled every person “equal protections of the laws.”

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

A name given by former Confederates to southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction in the South.

• Opponents

• Confederates

• Pirates

• Scalawags

During Reconstruction Congress passed laws that required Southern states to rejoin the Union.  This included military districts, and voting organizations that favored Republican ideology.

• Reconstruction Acts

• Reconstruction Plan

• Amendments

• Laws

A group that terrorized African Americans and other Republican voters.  Also known at the time as “redeemers” who claimed to have saved their states from “black Republicans.”

• Conferdates

• Freedmen

• Ku Klux Klan

• Union

Guaranteed that states and federal governments could not deny the right to vote any male citizens because of “race, color, or previous constitution of servitude.”

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 14th Amendment