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Reconstruction
Vocabulary from the Reconstruction Period
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War in the United States when the Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment that extended suffrage (right to vote) to all races |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President of the United States was elected Vice-President and succeeded Lincoln after he was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote. |
| Black Codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by Southern States following the Civil War |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War for political or financial reasons during Reconstruction. Southerners viewed them with hate and vengeance. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | In 1865, an agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them to find jobs |
| Impeachment | A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites |
| John Wilkes Booth | An American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865 |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the South after the Civil War |
| Radical Republicans | Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern States after the Civil War |
| Segregation | Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences |
| Sharecropping | A system used on Southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. |
| Fisk University | historically black college started by the Freedmen's Bureau located in Nashville, TN |
| Vigilante justice | taking law enforcement into one's own hands apart from duly established legal authority; justice meted out by member of a vigilante committee |
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