Civil War & Reconstruction Vocab Review

law passed in 1865 that declared slavery illegal throughout the United States.

• Black Codes

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

law passed in 1868 that gave African American’s citizenship

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Reconstruction

• Secede

law passed in 1870 that gave African Americans the right to vote

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

a last ditch effort to prevent southern states from seceding, one provision included extending the old Missouri Compromise line across the rest of the United States

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Homestead Act

• Reconstruction

• Crittenden Proposal

To leave the Union

• Secede

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Sharecroppers

an 1862 law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for free as long as they agreed to settle and farm it for five years

• Crittenden Proposal

• Ku Klux Klan

• Homestead Act

• Radical Republicans

the twelve years after the Civil War (1865-1877) which saw northern troops occupy and reshape the governments of the defeated southern states.

• Reconstruction

• The Civil War

• Radical Republicans

• Crittenden Proposal

northerners who went south looking for profit or to gain political power during the era of reconstruction

• Sharecroppers

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

name commonly given to any southerner who cooperated with the Republican plan of reconstruction.

• Carpetbaggers

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Scalawags

measures adopted by Southern whites after the Civil War as a way of restricting the rights and freedoms of blacks.

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ku Klux Klan

• Plessy v. Ferguson