Reconstruction Vocabulary Review

Segregation

• the forced separation of people of different races in public places

• the voluntary association of people of different races in public places

• the integration of people of different races in public places

• the celebration of diversity in public places

Fourteenth Amendment

• A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

• A law that abolished slavery in the United States.

• An amendment that granted women the right to vote.

• A constitutional amendment that established the income tax.

Reconstruction

• the time period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states

• a series of laws passed to limit the rights of African Americans

• the economic recovery period after the Great Depression

• the military strategy used during the Civil War

  Thirteenth Amendment

• (1865) a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery

• (1865) a constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote

• (1865) a constitutional amendment that established income tax

• (1865) a constitutional amendment that abolished the electoral college

Civil Rights Act of 1866

• a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans

• a law that restricted the voting rights of African Americans

• a law that mandated segregation in public facilities

• a law that abolished slavery in the United States

Poll Tax

• a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote

• a tax imposed on property ownership

• a fee for registering to vote

• a tax on income earned from investments

Radical Republicans

• members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union

• a group of southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction

• northern politicians who wanted to punish the South after the Civil War

• a faction of the Republican Party that supported states' rights

Ku Klux Klan

• a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights

• a political organization aimed at promoting civil rights for all citizens

• a group formed to support the abolition of slavery in the United States

• a social club for white Americans to celebrate their heritage

Reconstruction Acts

• Laws that abolished slavery in the southern states

• Laws that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment

• Laws that granted women the right to vote in southern states

• Laws that established the Freedmen's Bureau to assist former slaves

Freedmen’s Bureau

• an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South

• a military organization formed to protect the rights of freed slaves

• a social club for former slaves and their families

• a government program to distribute land to former slave owners