15. Reconstruction : Part 1

Civil War

A war handled between two groups of people from the same country. In America, it was fought specifically by the northern and southern states.

Abraham Lincoln

The 16th president of the United States. He was also previously an American lawyer and statesman. He led the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1865, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Reconstruction

An era of rebuilding the United States after the destruction from the Civil War.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued in 1863; a declaration that claimed to free all slaves.

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery in the United States, unless it was a punishment for a crime.

John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre.

Andrew Johnson

17th President of the United States and 16th Vice President of the United States.

Black Codes

Heavily controlled African Americans and restricted them socially, and economically.

Vagrancy Laws

Prohibited loitering, panhandling, gambling, and sleeping outdoors…among other things…

Thaddeus Stevens

A Republican Congressman

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Allowed all American-born residents to be considered citizens.

14th Amendment

Granted citizenship, denied due process, and discrimination.

Dred Scott decision

Dred Scott lost the case because he was not a citizen. All territories were open to slavery again, essentially.

Reconstruction Act

A process that readmitted the Southern States into the Union.

Ulysses S. Grant

A former Union General and 18th President of the U.S.

1868 Presidential Election

Ulysses S. Grant, the Republican nominee, beat Horatio Seymour, the Democratic nominee.

Horatio Seymour

Democratic nominee in the 1868 Presidential Election.

Hiram Revels

An American U.S. Senator and minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Blanche K. Bruce

A former U.S. Senator who was born into slavery in Virginia.

P.B.S. Pinchback

A former governor of Louisiana from 1872 to 1873.

James D. Porter

A former governor of Tennessee from 1875 to 1879.

Antoine Dubuclet

A former African American U.S. Louisiana State Treasurer.

William Breedlove

A Delegate to the Convention from 1867 to 1868.

Emanuel Fortune

An American politician for Jackson County, Florida; shoemaker.

James D. Lynch

A minister from Mississippi.

William V. Turner

A teacher from Alabama.

General William T. Sherman

A general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Special Field Order No. 15

A list of military orders issued by General William T. Sherman during the Civil War.

Freedmen’s Bureau Policy

A policy that provided shelter, food, clothing, and land to Southerners and freed slaves.

General Oliver O. Howard

A Union general during the American Civil War.

Booker T. Washington

An educated, slave-born African American, who educated black schools and colleges.

Virginia Baptist State Convention

A convention that helped form black churches.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

An African American educator, activist, and religious leader.

Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention

Aimed to unite African American Baptists and spread their influence.

Virginia Broughton

An African-American missionary and author, who often wrote about religion.

Jim Crow laws

A set of laws of which kept African Americans segregated from Whites in the late 1800's. They were emplaced after Reconstruction.