Civil War and Reconstruction Vocab

15th Amendment

• Grants the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• Absolishes (bans) slavery in the U.S.

• Ends Reconstruction

• People from the North who came to the South to make money

Reconstruction

• The period after the Cilvare war

• The period after the Civil War

• Wanted to reconcile with the South; did not want to punish the South during Reconstruction

• Organization that gave aid to former slaves; provided food, clothing, shelter, jobs, education and medicine.

A sub group of a political party who believed the South should face punishment for the Civil War and that African Americans should be given full political and civil equality. Gained power in Congress – was able to push through “Congressional Reconstruction”.

• African American Migration

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Radical Republicans

System of agriculture used in the South with former slaves. Farmers would give a portion of their crops to the landowner in exchange for use of the land.

• Debt Peonage

• Radical Republicans

• Sharecropping

• Fourteenth Amendment

Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction that required racial segregation.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Debt Peonage

• African American Migration

14th Amendment

• Organization that gave aid to former slaves; provided food, clothing, shelter, jobs, education and medicine.

• Urged Southerners to stop fighting and reconcile as Americans

• Grants the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• Grants citizenship to all born in the U.S

Outlaws slavery in all states and all lands governed by the United States.

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Black Codes

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

Abraham Lincoln

• A president!

• Wanted to reconcile with the South; did not want to punish the South during Reconstruction

• I don't know.

• Urged Southerners to stop fighting and reconcile as Americans

What is the document President Lincoln signing?

• Civil War
• state's rights
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of the unstable social, financial, and political climate.

• Carpetbaggers

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Sharcropping