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Reconstruction
8th Grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment | A law added to the constitution that made slavery illegal. |
| 14th Amendment | A law added to the constitution that made freed African Americans equal citizens |
| 15th Amendment | A law added to the constitution that gave African American men the right to vote. |
| Abolish | To get rid of |
| Abraham Lincoln | The president of the U.S. during the Civil War. |
| Amendment | Law added to the Constitution. |
| Andrew Johnson | The president of the U.S. after Lincoln was assassinated. |
| Black Codes | Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans. |
| Carpetbaggers | a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. |
| Freedmen | African Americans freed from slavery. |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | A government agency designed to help freedmen get work, education, and medical care. |
| Grandfather Clause | A law that said that if a person’s grandfather could vote before 1865 they did not have to pay poll taxes or take literacy tests in order to vote. |
| Great Migration | The movement of African Americans from the south to Northern cities. |
| Impeach | Charging a government official with a crime. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that kept African Americans and whites separate. (segregation). |
| Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan | -Abolished Slavery -States pay war debt - No vote for freedmen |
| Ku Klux Klan/ White League | Hate groups who tried to keep African Americans from using their rights through violence and threats. |
| Literacy Test | A reading test given in the south that a person had to pass in order to vote. |
| Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan | -Abolished Slavery -10% of the South had to say they were loyal to the U.S. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | A court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as things were “separate, but equal.” |
| Poll | Vote |
| Poll Tax | Money that had to be paid to the government in order to vote. |
| Radical Republican | A group in the government who wanted to punish the South after the Civil War and fought for rights for freedmen. |
| Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan | -Equal rights for freedmen -U.S. military to occupy the south -Voting Rights for African Americans -All states must agree to the 13th,14th, and 15th amendments |
| Reconstruction | The time after the Civil War when the North and South become one country again and the South is rebuilt. |
| Scalawags | a white Southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal gain. |
| Segregation | The separation of people based on race. |
| Sharecropping | When Freedmen rented land to farm by paying the landowner a part of their crop. |
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