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VA US 8.1
Reconstruction
Term | Definition |
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Reconstruction | a program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore the southern states to the Union. |
Radical Republican | congressman who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the south. |
Wade-Davis Bill | a law required a majority of prewar voters in Confederate states to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin. |
Freedmen’s Bureau | a federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the Civil War. |
Andrew Johnson | Vice President under Abraham Lincoln; assumed Presidency after assassination of Lincoln. |
black code | laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 | a law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens. |
Fourteenth Amendment | 1868 constitutional amendment that defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protections under the law. |
impeach | to accuse a public official of wrongdoing in office. |
Fifteenth Amendment | an 1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous conditions of servitude. |