Reconstruction Vocabulary Terms

A system of forced labor in the Southern United States that involved the use of prisoners as laborers

• Exodusters

• Freedmen

• Impeachment

• Convict Leasing

The process of formally accusing a government official of misconduct or wrongdoing.

• Convict Leasing

• Impeachment

• Freedmen

• Exodusters

A person who has been freed from slavery, usually through legal means.

• Exodusters

• Freedmen

• Impeachment

• Jim Crow Laws

A period in US history that took place after the American Civil War, from 1865 to 1877.

• Reconstruction

• Scalawag

• Sharecropping

• Juneteenth

Term used to describe someone who is dishonest or untrustworthy, and to describe white Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• Scalawag

• Juneteenth

• Jim Crow Laws

• Exodusters

A secret American terrorist organization who opposed freeing black people from slavery

• Ku Klux Klan

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Radical Republicans

African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas in the late 1800s to escape racist and discriminatory laws.

• Convict Leasing

• Exodusters

• Freedmen

• Impeachment

A holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Klu Klux Klan

• Juneteenth

• Jim Crow Laws

A system of laws and practices that enforced racial segregation in the United States

• Juneteenth

• Klu Klux Klan

• Impeachment

• Jim Crow Laws

The process of formally accusing a government official of misconduct or wrongdoing.

• Impeachment

• Exodusters

• Convict Leasing

• Klu Klux Klan