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Reconstruction Vocab
These terms will help you review for the Reconstruction Era - CH 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment** | Constitutional amendment that banned slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment** | Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States |
| 15th Amendment** | Constitutional amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote in all states |
| Amnesty | The granting of a pardon to a person for committing an illegal act |
| Carpetbagger** | A nickname for a Northerner who went south during Reconstruction in the hope of getting rich |
| Compromise of 1877 | A deal between Republicans and Democrats that ended Reconstruction in exchange for giving African Americans rights and accepting Hayes as president |
| Grandfather clause | Excused a voter from a poll tax or literacy test if his father or grandfather had voted before 1867 |
| Impeach | To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office |
| Johnson’s Plan | Granted amnesty to most Southerners, appointed governors to Southern states, states had to denounce secession, abolish slavery, and ratify the 13th Amendment; this plan also opposed giving African Americans equal rights |
| Lincoln’s Plan | In each state, 10% of the voters must swear loyalty, then form a new government and adopt a constitution that bans slavery; this plan also offered amnesty to all white Southerners and gave educated African Americans the right to vote |
| Literacy test | Required voters to read and explain a difficult part of the Constitution before they would be allowed to vote |
| Override | To overturn or defeat, as a bill proposed in Congress |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation was legal as long as facilities for African Americans and whites were equal |
| Poll tax | Fee paid by a voter in order to vote |
| Radical | Extreme |
| Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt; also, the federal program to rebuild it |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Divided the South into 5 military districts, guaranteed all African American men the right to vote, prevented former Confederate leaders from holding office |
| Scalawag | A nickname for a white southerner who supported Radical Republicans |
| Segregation** | The separation of the races to keep them apart – in such situations as housing, schools, restrooms, drinking fountains, etc. |
| Sharecropper** | A farmer that worked on land owned by another person; many freed slaves in the South became sharecroppers after the Civil War |
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