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History
Flash Cards From Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reconstruction | to rebuild |
| 13th amendment | it band slavery throughout limited the rights of freedom |
| black codes | laws that severly limited the rights of freedom |
| radical republicans | vowed to take control of reconstruction |
| 14th amendment | blacks were considered citizens |
| impeach | to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against public official |
| 15th amendment | gave black men the right to vote |
| kkk | secret society organized in the south after the civl war to reassent white supremacy by means of violence |
| jim crow laws | laws that seperated people of different races in public places in the south |
| plessy v ferguson | an 1896 court case in which the supremacy court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as facilities were equal |