Reconstruction Vocabulary (Ch. 6)

Former slaves

• freedmen

• Freedmen's Bureau

• filibuster

• suffrage

A temporary agency that helped former slaves with food, shelter, education, and health care.

• freedmen

• Freedmen's Bureau

• reconstruction

• suffrage

A plan to rebuild the South and restore the southern states to the Union after the Civil War.

• suffrage

• Black Codes

• scalawag

• reconstruction

Voting rights

• reconcstruction

• carpetbagger

• redeemers

• suffrage

Four acts that placed harsh economic and social restrictions on African Americans

• understanding clause

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

Native southern whites (also called turncoats) who supported the Republican party during the Reconstruction period.

• redeemers

• freedmen

• suffrage

• scalawags

In the post Civil War period, a term for northern whites because it was believed that they came to the state carrying their belongings in suitcases made of carpets.

• redeemers

• freedmen

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

Extended the vote to male citizens of any race or color.

• disfranchise

• reapportionment

• understanding clause

• universal male suffrage

To take the right to vote away from an individual or group.

• disfranchise

• filibuster

• reapportionment

• understanding clause

An organization that used violence and intimidation to keep African Americans from voting polls.

• redeemers

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• universal male suffrage