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Reconstruction
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War where the southern states were reintegrated and the nation started to rebuild |
| Radical Republicans | A group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought President Lincoln was too soft on the South |
| Scalawags | Southern whites who supported Republican policy |
| Sharecroppers | Land owners that leased a few acres of their land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops |
| Freedmen | Former slaves |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern whites who moved to the South as Republican leaders |
| Moderates | People who didn't hold radical political views |
| Radical Reconstruction Plan | Punish the South and divide it into 5 military districts |
| Black Codes | Laws that restricted freedmen's rights |
| Poll Tax | Tax required for a person to vote |
| Suffrage | To vote |
| Grandfather Clause | A clause in voter's registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867 |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave all male citizens of all races the right to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction enforcing segregation of African-Americans and whites |
| Literacy Test | A test given to African Americans in the South in which they had to read part of the Constitution before they could vote |
| Assassination | The killing of a political or government leader |
| Freedman's Bureau | Federal agency set up to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group started in the South by former Confederate soldiers mainly to terrorize and harass African Americans |
| States' Rights | A belief that state governments had more authority than the federal government and that states could govern themselves |
| Abolish | To end |
| Segregation | To separate between whites and African Americans |
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