Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Reconstruction Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Amnesty | an official pardon (forgiveness) for people who have been convicted of crimes |
| Black Codes | laws that limited the rights of African Americans and enforced racial segregation |
| Bureau | a government organization or agency |
| Carpetbagger | any person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction |
| Compromise of 1877 | a compromise that decided the Republican candidate for president would become the next President of the United States, and that the U.S. military would stop enforcing Reconstruction policies in the South. |
| Coup d'état | the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government |
| Freedmen | people who have been freed from slavery |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | a federal agency created to assist freedmen in obtaining medical care, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education after the Civil War |
| Grandfather Clause | a voting law in some states that made men eligible to vote if they or their ancestors (fathers and grandfathers) had been able to vote before 1867 |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws designed to segregate white and black Americans in public places (schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, playgrounds, etc.) |
| Impeach | to officially charge (accuse) a government leader with a crime or misbehavior |
| Industrialization | the development of industries in a country or region (ex: the tobacco industry, the textile/clothing industry, the oil industry) |
| Ku Klux Klan | an organization that resisted Reconstruction in the South and committed violence against African Americans |
| Literacy Test | a test given that must be passed in order to vote in an election |
| “New South” | a movement/ plan to industrialize the South after the Civil War in order to strengthen the Southern economy |
| Panic of 1873 | a banking crisis that caused an economic depression from 1873 to 1879 |
| Poll Tax | a tax that must be paid in order to vote in an election |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | an 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court decided segregation was legal in the United States. Due to this decision, segregation remained legal until 1964 |
| Radical Republicans | members of the Republican Party who wanted racial equality in the United States during Reconstruction |
| Reconstruction | the period of time from 1865–77 when the U.S. government worked to rebuild the southern states |
| Reconstruction Act | an 1867 federal law that announced southern states would be under U.S. military rule and would have to write new state constitutions, ratify the 14th amendment, and allow African American men to vote |
| Scalawag | any white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit |
| Segregation | the action of separating people or things |
| Sharecropping | a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner and pay the owner a portion of their crop harvest as rent |
| Southern Democrat | a political party that mainly consisted of former Confederates who opposed Reconstruction efforts that punished the South |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| 13th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that officially abolished slavery throughout the United States in 1865 |
| 14th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gives citizenship to all people born in the U.S., and declared that laws should be applied equally and fairly to people of all races |
| 15th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that officially gave men of all races the right to vote in 1870 |
Created by:
levans4
Popular American Government sets