Reconstuction Vocab

The period during which the federal government controlled the states that had seceded from the union during the civil war.

Reconstruction

a group of Republican political leaders dedicated to imposing harsh conditions on the states that have seceded from the Union during the civil war.

Radical Republicans

A federal agency created to provide aid for the enslaved people who were emancipated.

Freedmen's Bureau

laws that restricted African-Americans rights and opportunities.

Black Codes

the act of bringing charges against a public official in order to determine whether he or she should be removed from office.

Impeach

the constitutional amendment ratified in July 1868 which guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the United States protected due process and guaranteed equal protection of the law.

Fourteenth amendment

the constitutional amendment ratified in February 1870 which guaranteed voting rights to all males regardless of race.

fifteenth amendment

a negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican party after the civil war.

Scalawag

a negative term for northerners who moved to the south after the civil war.

Carpetbagger

a forced separation often by race.

segregation

the process of bringing together people of different races religions and social classes.

integration

a secret society formed in the South with the intention of promoting white supremacy and denying African-American the exercise of the new rights.

Ku Klux Klan

a law that bands discrimination in public facilities and transportation.

Civil rights act 1875

a term for a white Southern Democrat who returned to political power after 1870.

Redeemer

a system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop.

sharecropping

state laws passed throughout the South to enforce racial segregation of public facilities.

Jim Crow Laws

a tax charged on voters.

poll tax

an African-American civil rights activist who advocated steps to create immediate legal social and political equality for blacks.

W.E.B Du Bois

a reading and writing test formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting.

Literacy Test

an African-American activist dedicated to promoting educational and economic advancement for blacks as a road to racial equality.

Brooker T. Washington

an agreement by which Rutherford B Hayes won the 1876 presidential election and in exchange agreed to remove all remaining federal troops from the south.

Compromise of 1877