Reconstruction Vocabulary

The period after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 where Northern political leaders created plans for governing the South and admitting Southern states back into the Union

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

An act (1867) that placed the South under military rule and prohibited supporters of secession from voting

• Reconstruction Act

• Radical Republicans

• Black Codes

Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction and made a profit and created tensions in society

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Southern Terrorist Groups

A mocking term used for white, Southern Republicans

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Tenant Farming

An amendment (in 1865) added to the Constitution that ended slavery, and any other forms of involuntary servitude, in the U.S.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

An amendment (in 1868) added to the Constitution that granted citizenship to newly freed African Americans with all their civil and political rights

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

An amendment (in 1870) added to the Constitution that stated no American could be denied the right to vote based on their race

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

Individuals in Congress who wanted full citizenship and voting rights for African Americans. These groups wished to punish the South’s secession by creating strict regulations for the South to rejoin the Union

• Carpetbaggers

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

An organization founded in 1865 that provided education, assistance, and justice to newly freed individuals as they maneuvered a newly emancipated status

• Reconstruction Act

• Freedman’s Bureau

• Southern Terrorist Groups

These are laws that enforced racial segregation in the South that began in 1877 with the end of Reconstruction

• Segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Amnesty