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Unit 12 vocab
Reformation
Term | Definition |
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John Wilkes Booth | Southerner that assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater. |
13th Amendment | Officially abolished slavery in the United States of America |
14th Amendment | Defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law for African Americans. |
15th Amendment | Gave African American man the right to vote. |
Ten percent plan | The name of Abe'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 con't | His plan for Reconstruction was too lenient; encouraged states to pass black codes, vetoes legislation passed by congress. |
Radical Republicans | Group of congressmen whose Reconstruction plan was too harsh on the south; they also impeached Andrew Johnson. |
Military Reconstruction Act | Laws passed by Congress that divides the southern states into five military districts until they ratified the 14th and 15th amendments. |
Black Codes | Laws passed by individual states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans. |
Freedmen's Bureau | Government agency that was created to help newly freedmen and poor whites with jobs, medicine and information. |
Poll Tax | States Law that requires citizens to pays a fee before they can 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. |
Freedman | Slaves that had been freed by the 13th Amendment. |
Segregation | The separation of blacks and whites in public places like bathrooms and schools. |
Jim Crowe Laws | Laws passed by the southern states that enforced the segregation of public places. |
William Brownlow | Republican governor of Tennessee during Reconstruction, he was very hard on southerns 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 was a republican during the Reconstruction, often were targets of violence. |
Compromise of 1877 | Agreement that officially 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 southern states. |
Rutherford B Hayes | Republican president that officially ended Reconstruction in 1877. |
Reconstruction | Time period in 1865-1877 following the Civil War in which the south was rebuilt politically, economically, and socially. |