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Unit 12 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Wilkes Booth | Southerner that assasinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theatre |
| 13th Amendment | Officially abolished slavery in the USA |
| 14th Amendment | Defined citizenship and guarenteed equal protection under the law for African Americans |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African American men the right to vote |
| Ten Percent Plan | The name of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction; it was lenient and made it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union |
| Andrew Johnson | Democrat from Tennessee; he was Lincoln's Vice President and became president after his assassination. |
| Andrew Johnson | His plan for Reconstruction was too lenient, encouraged states to pass black codes; voted legislation passed by Congress. |
| Radical Republicans | Group of Congressmen whose Reconstruction plan was too harsh on the South; they also impeached Andrew Johnson. |
| Black Codes | laws passed by individual states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans. |
| Military Reconstruction Act | Law passed by Congress that divided the southern states into 5 military districts until they ratified the 14th and 15th Amendments. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Government agency that was created to help newly freedmen and poor whites with jobs, medical and education. |
| Poll Tax | state law that requires citizens to pay a fee before they are able to vote |
| Tenure of Office Act | Law passed by Congress and vetoed by Andrew Johnson that said he had to get Congress' permission to fire any member of his cabinet. |
| Impeachment | to formally charge the president with a crime; a trial is then held in the Senate. |
| Freedmen | slave that had been freed by the 13th Amendment |
| Segregation | the seperation of blacks and whites in public places like bathrooms and schools |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed by southern states that enforced the segregation of public places |
| William Brownlow | Republican governor of Tennessee during Reconstruction , he was very hard on southerners that fought and served with the Confederacy; also owned his own newspaper |
| Vigilante | a person that takes justice into their own hands and punishes others without a trial or due process. |
| Carpetbaggers | northerners that moved south to help out with or profit from Reconstruction |
| Scalawags | A southerner that were Republican during the Reconstruction, often targets of violence |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement that finally ended Reconstruction |
| Compromise of 1877 | deal made between Democrats and Republicans in which Rutherford B Hayes was made president in exchange for Union Troops being removed from the southern states. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican president that officially ended Reconstruction in 1877 |
| Reconstruction | Time period 1865-1877 following the Civil War in which the South was rebuilt politically, economically, and socially. |
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