Unit 8 Reconstruction Key Terms review

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

• Reconstruction

• impeachment

• emancipation

• nationalism

made slavery illegal throughout the U.S. [first of Reconstruction amendments]

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 27th Amendment

Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Scalawags

laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans

• segregation

• impeachment

• emancipation

• black codes

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

all people born or naturalized within the U.S. are citizens [except Native Americans]; overturned Dred Scott case [second of three Reconstruction amendments]

• 27th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 13th amendment

• 15th amendment

gave African American men the right to vote; many women were angry because they weren’t included [last of three Reconstruction amendments]

• 27th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 13th amendment

northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the war; supposedly, they had rushed South carrying all their possessions in bags made from carpeting; southerners resented them, accusing them – often unfairly – of trying to profit from Reconstruction

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

secret society that opposed civil rights, such as suffrage [voting rights] for African Americans; often violently

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

special tax people had to pay before they could vote; an effort to deny the vote to African Americans who were unable to pay; result is almost every white man could avoid the voting restrictions.

• civil rights

• poll tax

• emancipation

• amnesty