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Reconstruction Vocab

Vocabulary terms for U.S. Reconstruction in Social Studies.

TermDefinition
Reconstruction A period of rebuilding America, following the Civil War. The confederate states were readmitted into the union.
Radical Republican Someone who was in government after the Civil War and wanted to destroy powers of former slaveholders, giving former slaves more equality.
13th Amendment Adopted in 1865, as it ended slavery.
14th Amendment Adopted in 1868, and it made anyone who was born in the United States a citizen and has equal protection of law.
15th Amendment Adopted in 1870, as it ensures that blacks are allowed to vote, despite their color.
Freedman's Bureau An agency that helped former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War had ended.
Jim Crow Laws Laws that were established by the Southern States that separated whites and blacks in public and private facilities.
Ku Klux Clan An organization that is secret and attempted to restore white power in the south after the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson Was a democrat and was the only senator in the South that remained loyal to the union. He was impeached but not removed from office.
Impeach To charge an official with misconduct in office.
Carpetbaggers Northerners who moved down South to make money after the Civil War.
Scalawags People who supported American reconstruction and sided with the blacks.
Sharecropping A form of farming in which the landowner allows a tenant to use their land to grow crops, but must give them a good share of the produced crops.
Compromise of 1877 It settled the dispute of the 1876 presidential election; hiring Rutherford Hayes to be president. It also marked the end of the reconstruction era.
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