Reconstruction Vocab

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• government pardon (usually for whole groups of people)
  
  

• members of Congress during Reconstruction who

  wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

• government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
  
  

rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• black codes

• scalawag

period beginning in 1867, when the Republicans who

had control in both houses of Congress,

took charge of Reconstruction

• carpetbagger

• 15th amendment

• Radical Reconstruction

to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official

• segregation

• impeach

• grandfather clause

uncomplimentary nick-name for a northerner who

went to the South after the Civil War

• black codes

• carpetbagger

• amnesty

examination to see if a person can read and write;

used in the past to restrict voting rights

• literacy test

• poll tax

• 14th amendment

law that excused a voter from a voting restrictions if

members of their family had been eligible to vote on

January 1, 1867

• black codes

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• grandfather clause

separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

• 13th amendment

• segregation

• 15th amendment

person who rents a plot of land from another person

and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop

• sharecropper

• impeach

• freedmen

men and women who had been slaves

• amnesty

• freedmen

• black codes