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Reconstruction Vocab
Reconstruction Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. |
| 14th amendment | gave citizenship status to all of those born in the United States, and guaranteed equal protection under the law. States were forbidden from interfering with the rights of citizens by the federal government. |
| 15th amendment | gave all male citizens the right to vote, regardless of race. |
| abolish | to completely and officially end |
| agriculture | the science and business of producing crops, raising livestock, and general farming |
| amendment | A change or addition to the Constitution that once ratified has the same legal power as the original document. |
| assassinate | to kill for political reasons by using a surprise attack |
| Black Codes | were laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War to prevent blacks from having the full rights of citizens and to restore, as much as possible, the labor and racial controls of slavery . |
| carpetbaggers | White Northerners in the South after the Civil War seeking private gain under the Reconstruction governments. |
| casualty | a person who is hurt or killed during an accident, war, etc. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. The 14th Amendment was ratified two years later. |
| Compromise of 1877 | an unwritten deal that settled the outcome of the 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. |
| Congressional Reconstruction | angry about Black Codes and efforts in the South to limit the equality of freedmen in any way possible, the Congress took control of Reconstruction from President Johnson and passed many Reconstruction Acts, one dividing the South into military districts |
| discrimination | the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people |
| economy | the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region |
| freedmen | the term for men, women, and children who were freed from slavery after the Civil War |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Federal agency that provided schools, hospitals, medical care, etc. to newly freed slaves. |
| impeach | bring charges against an elected official who is accused of breaking the law - it may or may not result in the official's removal from office. |
| Jim Crow Laws | southern state laws that enforced a policy of segregating or discriminating against black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment. |
| plantation | a large area of land especially in a hot part of the world where crops (such as cotton) are grown |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court ruling that said segregation was okay as long as things were “separate, but equal”; legalized segregation |
| Radical Republicans | group of Republicans during Reconstruction who were intent on punishing white Southerners for the Civil War. |
| ratify | to confirm by expressing consent or approval |
| Reconstruction | Period of rebuilding of the United States after the Civil War. |
| rural | relating to the country |
| scalawags | White Southerners who supported the Reconstruction governments after the Civil War often for private gain. |
| segregation | separation of people of different races |
| sharecropping | system of farming in which farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the crops they raise |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, which required that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters |
| tenant | a person, business, group, etc., that pays to use another person's property |
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