Unit 4 Vocabulary

The term used to describe slaves who were freed after the war.

• Freedmen

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Grandfather clause

The act of accusing & putting on trial a government leader of wrong doing.

• suffrage

• gerrymandering

• impeach

• Congressional Reconstruction

Federal agency created to help freedmen & the poor with their basic needs.

• Poll Tax

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• Literacy Test

Amendment to Constitution that outlawed slavery.

• gerrymandering

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Hate groups created during the Reconstruction Period who tried to limit the rights of newly freedmen & Republicans.

• Black Panthers & White League

• Ku Klux Klan & Red Shirts

• Jim Crow Laws & segregation

• gerrymandering & disenfranchisement

The time period of rebuilding after the Civil War.

• segregation

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Recovery Phase
• Reconstruction

Black Codes changed to these laws which allowed segregation of races & prevented African Americans from having equal rights.

• Freedmen

• Disenfranchisement

• Jim Crow Laws
• Impeach

Amendment that gave ALL MEN the right to vote (suffrage).

• 19th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

A system of farming where a landowner allowed the sharecropper to farm the land & he paid with a share of what he grew.

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen

• Black codes

• slavery

Similar to slave codes ~ laws that limited the rights of African Americans.

• Grandfather clause

• Black codes

• Sharecropping

• Impeach