Vocabulary
1. Reconstruction - the process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
2. Andrew Johnson - became President after Lincoln's assassination.
3. Black Codes - laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limits the freedom of formerly enslaved people.
4. 13th Amendment - Constitutional amendment the outlawed slavery throughout the United States.
14th Amendment - The 1868 constitutional amendment declaring that all citizens have the same rights whether they are native-born or naturalized.
15th Amendment - The 1870 constitutional amendment declaring that the right to vote may not be denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
5. Impeach - To charge a public official with wrongdoing.
6. Freedman's Bureau - a federal agency set up in 1865 to help both whites and African Americans in the South.
7. Sharecropping - A system of farming in which a farmer rented land and provided labor in return for a share of the crop or for part of the income from the crop.
8. Carpetbagger - insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Civil War.
9. Scalawag - A dishonest person; a derogatory name given to any Southerner who aided Reconstruction.
10. Ulysses S. Grant - 1868 Republican president that served during Reconstruction.
11. Jim Crow Laws - sets up separate facilities for different races.
12. segregation - To separate.
13. grandfather clause - a provision in several southern state constitutions designed to enfranchise poor whites and disenfranchise blacks by waiving high voting requirements for descendants of men voting before 1867
14. poll tax - A tax that charges each person the same amount, usually as a requirement for voting.
2. Andrew Johnson - became President after Lincoln's assassination.
3. Black Codes - laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limits the freedom of formerly enslaved people.
4. 13th Amendment - Constitutional amendment the outlawed slavery throughout the United States.
14th Amendment - The 1868 constitutional amendment declaring that all citizens have the same rights whether they are native-born or naturalized.
15th Amendment - The 1870 constitutional amendment declaring that the right to vote may not be denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
5. Impeach - To charge a public official with wrongdoing.
6. Freedman's Bureau - a federal agency set up in 1865 to help both whites and African Americans in the South.
7. Sharecropping - A system of farming in which a farmer rented land and provided labor in return for a share of the crop or for part of the income from the crop.
8. Carpetbagger - insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Civil War.
9. Scalawag - A dishonest person; a derogatory name given to any Southerner who aided Reconstruction.
10. Ulysses S. Grant - 1868 Republican president that served during Reconstruction.
11. Jim Crow Laws - sets up separate facilities for different races.
12. segregation - To separate.
13. grandfather clause - a provision in several southern state constitutions designed to enfranchise poor whites and disenfranchise blacks by waiving high voting requirements for descendants of men voting before 1867
14. poll tax - A tax that charges each person the same amount, usually as a requirement for voting.