Reconstruction - Vocabulary

Radical Republican

• Group of Congressmen who strongly opposed and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans.

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly

  enslaved people and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of

  the Civil War.

• The “corrupt bargain” between Democrats and Republicans that

  ended Reconstruction.

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

Answer explanation

13th Amendment

• Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring

  that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be

  denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on

  account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

• Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining

  national citizenship and forbidding states from restricting the

  basic rights of citizens.

• Constitutional Amendment that officially ended slavery in the

  United States forever.

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who who

  supported Reconstruction policies during the era.

Answer explanation

14th

Amendment

• Constitutional Amendment that officially ended slavery in the

  United States forever.

• Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining

  national citizenship and forbidding states from restricting the

  basic rights of citizens.

• Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring

  that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be

  denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on

  account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit

  during Reconstruction.

15th Amendment

• Constitutional Amendment that officially ended slavery in the

  United States forever.

• Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining

  national citizenship and forbidding states from restricting the

  basic rights of citizens.

• Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring

  that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be

  denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on

  account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who who

  supported Reconstruction policies during the era.

Carpetbaggers

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

• Group of Republicans in Congress who strongly opposed slavery

  and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They

  supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for

  African Americans.

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who who

  supported Reconstruction policies during the era.

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit

  during Reconstruction.

Scalawags

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

• Group of Republicans in Congress who strongly opposed slavery

  and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They

  supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for

  African Americans.

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who who

  supported Reconstruction policies during the era.

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit

  during Reconstruction.

Freedmen’s Bureau

• Group of Congressmen who strongly opposed and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans.

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly

  enslaved people and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of

  the Civil War.

• The “corrupt bargain” between Democrats and Republicans that

  ended Reconstruction.

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

Answer explanation

Sharecropping

• Plantation policy of “paying” formerly enslaved people with food

  and housing that was not much different from slavery itself.

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly

  enslaved people and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of

  the Civil War.

• The “corrupt bargain” between Democrats and Republicans that

  ended Reconstruction.

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

Answer explanation

Compromise

of 1877

• Plantation policy of “paying” formerly enslaved people with food

  and housing that was not much different from slavery itself.

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly

  enslaved people and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of

  the Civil War.

• The “corrupt bargain” between Democrats and Republicans that

  ended Reconstruction.

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

Answer explanation

Jim Crow Laws

• Group of Congressmen who strongly opposed and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans.

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly

  enslaved people and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of

  the Civil War.

• The “corrupt bargain” between Democrats and Republicans that

  ended Reconstruction.

• State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in southern

  states after Reconstruction ended.

Answer explanation