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Reconstruction- Kay
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment | 1865- Abolished slavery forever. |
| 14th Amendment | 1866- Gave freedmen the right to citizenship. |
| 15th Amendment | 1869- Gave freedmen the right to vote. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Agency that provided food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical supplies to freedmen and poor white farmers. |
| Black Codes | Laws used to spell out the rights of freedmen. |
| Black Codes | Freedmen could marry, own property, work for wages, and sue in court. |
| Black Codes | Freedmen could NOT vote or serve on juries in the South. |
| Black Codes | To help planters find workers to replace their slaves. |
| Black Codes | Freedmen were required to work. |
| Black Codes | If freedmen didn't have a job, they were arrested and hired out to planters. |
| Black Codes | Freedmen could only do farmwork. They could not enter many trades or own a business. |
| Black Codes | To keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. |
| Black Codes | Public Segregation. Black children could not attend public schools. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of white southerners who used violence and violent threats to intimidate and threaten freedmen who wanted to participate in politics in the South. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Books filled with laws that separated whites and blacks in public places. Started after Southern Democrats came back into power. |
| Radical Republicans | Wanted to punish the South for their secession from the Union and their part in the Civil War. |
| Andrew Johnson | Became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. |
| Impeach | The act of bring criminal charges against a political figure. |
| Reconstruction | The act of rebuilding the United States after the Civil War. |