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AH M3L5 Key Terms
American History Module 3 Lesson 5 Key Terms
Term | Definition |
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Reconstruction | Time period just after the Civil War in which legislatures attempted to returned seceded states back to the Union. |
Radical Republicans | Republicans that openly opposed Lincoln’s early plans for after the war. |
Freedmen's Bureau | Agency that would provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for black and white refugees in the South. |
Black Code | Laws that sought to limit the rights of Blacks and keep them as landless workers. |
Fourteenth Amendment | Guarantees citizenship to Black men and women. |
Fifteenth Amendment | States not citizens can be denied the right to vote because of race or color. |
Scalawag | White southerners who later joined the Republican party. |
Carpetbagger | Northerners who traveled South, seeking to take advantage of the South’s misfortunes. |
Tenant Farming | Instead of owning a farm outright, farmers would “rent” land from a larger farm. |
Sharecropping | Landowner “shares” his crop with a farmer, in exchange for their labor. |
Andrew Johnson | Lincoln’s Vice President, who assumed office after his assassination. |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Federal promise to protect black civil rights. |