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Unit 12
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John wikes booth | sountherner that assassinated president Lincoln at Ford's Theater |
| 13th admendment | offically aboliished slavery in the USA |
| 14 amendment | defined citiszenship and gaurenteed equal protetcion 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 southerners to rejoin the Union |
| Andrew Johnson | his plan for reconstruction was too leniet and encouraged states to pass black codes; vetoed legistlation 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 indaviduals states to limit the rights of freedoms of african americans |
| military reconstrustion act | law passed by congress that divided the southern states into five millitary districts until ratified the 14th/15th amendments |
| freedmen's bureau | gov't agency that was created to help newly freedmen and poor whites with jobs, educatipo9n , and medical help |
| 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 cabneit |
| impeachment | to formally charge the president with a crime ; a trial is held in senate |
| freedmen | slaves that had been freed by 13th amendment |
| segregation | the separation of blacks and whites in public places |
| jim crow laws | laws passed by the southerners states that enforced the segregation of public places |
| william brownlow | republican governor of tennessee during reconstruction, he was very hard on the southerners that fought and served with the confederacy ; also owned a 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 republicans during the reconstruction, often targets of violence |
| comprimise of 1877 | agreement that officially ended reconstruction; 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 |
| ruthford B. Hayes | republican president that officially ended reconstruction in 1877 |
| recunstrustion | time period 1865-1877 following the civil war in which the south was rebuilt politically, economically and socially |
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