Unit 7 Vocabulary Review

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

• 13th Amendment (1865)

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Andrew Johnson

1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

17th President of the United States, He opposed radical Republicans, The first U.S. president to be impeached.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• Ten Percent Plan

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Abolishes and prohibits slavery

• Ten Percent Law

• 13th Amendment (1865)

• 14th Amendment (1868)

• 15th Amendment (1870)

Citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.

• 13th Amendment (1865)

• 14th Amendment (1868)

• 15th Amendment (1870)

• 12th Amendment

U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed

• 13th Amendment (1865)

• 14th Amendment (1868)

• 15th Amendment (1870)

• 16th Amendment

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

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ten Perent Plan

• Sharecropper

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Ten Percent Plan

• Sharecropper

• Reconstruction

System that allowed farmers to get more credit. They used harvested crops to pay back their loans.

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropper

• Crop Lien System

• Ten Percent Plan