Reconstruction Era Unit 9

An emancipated, or freed, slave

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Freedmen

• Freedman

A time period after the Civil War where the country had to rebuild

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction

• Grandfather Clause

• "New South"

an official pardon, or forgiveness, for people who have been convicted, or guilty of political offenses

• amnesty

• impeach

• segregation

• Grandfather Clause

government program to help former slaves & poor whites in the South after the Civil War

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

This Amendment abolished slavery

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment gave black men the right to vote

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Laws to restrict or limit the freedom of black people to make sure they were still cheap labor

• Black Codes

• Literacy Tests

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scalawag

A political group that wanted complete abolition of slavery, the equal rights of freed slaves, and the punishment of Confederate leaders

• Carpetbagger

• Sharecropper

• Radical Republicans

• Radical Democrats

This Amendment grants citizenship and equal rights people born in the country

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This plan, or series of laws, helped the Confederate South reintegrate, or reconnect, to the Northern Union

• Compromise of 1877

• Grandfather Clause

• Radical Republicans

• Reconstruction Act