Reconstruction Unit Vocabulary

____________ is a name for the individuals freed from slavery.

He was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

• Barack Obama

• Thurgood Marshall

• Hiram Revels

• Samuel J. Tilden

This amendment abolished slavery except as a punishment for crime.

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

These laws established racial segregation. They were in place in many areas of the U.S. until the 1960's.

• Ten Percent Plan

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Jim Crow Laws

Sharecropping is

• a type of farming is where everyone shares the money made equally

• a type of farming where land and supplies are rented out to small groups of farmers in exchange for a portion of the crop

• a type of farming where different crops share a field

• a type of farming where the crop is harvested and meals are shared

This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S. This included formerly enslaved people. (It did not include Native Americans on tribal lands.)

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Prisoners (often African Americans) were rented out to local companies for heavy labor. The convicts labored for free and the companies paid the state government.

• Sharecropping

• Exodusters

• Convict Leasing

• Black Codes

This amendment gave the right to vote to MEN regardless the color of their skin.

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

These laws were passed in the south to attempt to limit the freedoms and rights of African Americans.

• Black Codes

• The Percent Plan

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• "Home Rule"

This was the formal end of the Reconstruction period and pulled the last troops out of the South.

• Command of the Army Act

• The Panic of 1873

• Tenure of Office Act

• Compromise of 1877