Reconstruction Vocab

Laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• carpetbaggers

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

What white southerners called northerners who moved South during Reconstruction

• carpetbaggers

• Jim Crow laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Codes

Law that gave African Americans legal rights after the Civil War

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 21st

Constitutional amendment that gave full citizenship to all people born in the US, except Native Americans.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 21st

Constitutional amendment that banned slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 21st

Agency established by Congress to help poor people in the South

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Jim Crow laws

to separate based on race

• enforce

• supervise

• segregate

• integrate

A time period after the Civil War during which the US government worked to rebuild the south and reunite the nation.

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Roaring Twenties

• Westward Expansion

to watch over someone/something in the interest of security

• carpetbagging

• supervise

• segregate

• reconcile