Reconstruction Vocabulary Definitions 23

an official pardon (forgiveness) for people who have been convicted of crimes

• Amnesty

• Impeach

• Coup d'état

• Suffrage

to officially charge (accuse) a government leader with a crime or misbehavior

• Amnesty

• Impeach

• Coup d'état

• Suffrage

the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government

• Amnesty

• Impeach

• Coup d'état

• Suffrage

the right to vote

• Amnesty

• Impeach

• Coup d'état

• Suffrage

laws that limited the rights of African Americans and enforced racial segregation

• Black Codes

• Compromise of 1877

• Panic of 1873

• Reconstruction Act

a banking crisis that caused an economic depression from 1873 to 1879

• Black Codes

• Compromise of 1877

• Panic of 1873

• Reconstruction Act

an 1867 federal law that announced southern states would be under U.S. military rule and would have to write new state constitutions, ratify the 14th amendment, and allow African American men to vote

• Black Codes

• Compromise of 1877

• Panic of 1873

• Reconstruction Act

a government organization or agency

• Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ku Klux Klan

• Sharecropping

an organization that resisted Reconstruction in the South and committed violence against African Americans

• Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ku Klux Klan

• Sharecropping

a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner and pay the owner a portion of their crop harvest as rent

• Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ku Klux Klan

• Sharecropping