2. Reconstruction #2

Freedmen's Bureau

• The Freedmen's Bureau was a military organization that fought against slavery.
• The Freedmen's Bureau was established to promote industrialization in the North.
• Government organization that helped Afro-Americans with housing, education, food, and medical care.

• The Freedmen's Bureau was created to support the Confederacy during the Civil War.

How do we call a change or correction to the Constitution

• Amendment

• Voting Rights

• Constitution

• Taxes

A Northerner who moved South to open businesses

• southerner
• carpetbagger
• migrant
• entrepreneur

To remove or not allow to be part of a whole; to set aside

• Include
• To Segregate/ Segregation

• Allow
• Accept

Transcontinental Railroad

• Railroad that connected East and West.

• The Transcontinental Railroad connected only the East Coast to the West Coast.
• The Transcontinental Railroad was built entirely by hand.
• The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1876.

Radical Republicans

• Republicans in the congress that wanted to punish the south for the Civil War

• A movement advocating for the abolition of the Senate.
• A faction focused solely on economic issues.
• A group opposing the Republican Party's policies.

Reconstruction

• To re-build; usually refers to the time period after the Civil War

• A period before the Civil War.

• Reconstruction Plan
• Reconstruction Act

Similar to "Black Codes" they were laws that segregated African Americans.

• Civil Rights Act
• Jim Crow laws
• Voting Rights Act
• Reconstruction Amendments

A committee or organization that is in charge of a specific task

• Bureau

• advisory board
• working group
• executive committee

What is a Scalawag?

• A Southerner who helped Carpetbaggers for their own political or financial gain

• A Scalawag is a type of Southern cuisine that sells to the Northerners

• A Scalawag refers to a Southern plantation owner.
• A Scalawag is a term for a Northern politician.