Vocab Civil War and Reconstruction

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Reconstruction

Time period after the civil war 1865-1877

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Emancipation Proclamation

Banned slavery in the south during the civil war

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President Johnson

Lincoln’s VP. As president, did not support black’s rights

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Freedmen/Freemen

Name for former slaves

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Freedmen’s Bureau

Organization that gave freedmen supplies, food etc. (Not land)

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Radical republicans

The Republicans who wanted dramatic, positive changes for the blacks

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13th Amendment

Banned Slavery

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14th Amendment

Freedmen have citizenship/rights (speech, assembly, petition)

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15th Amendment

Black men can vote (all races)

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Ku Klux Klan

Organization that used terrorism/violence to stop blacks from getting their rights

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Black Codes

black adults need a pass from employer to go into town

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Military Reconstruction

Period when blacks’ rights were actually enforced/ protected

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Sharecropping/ Tenant farming

Plantation owners rented land to poorer farmers. Usually the poor farmers couldn’t pay back their debts and essentially worked for nothing.