Reconstruction Era

Freedmen

Newly freed African Americans in the US

What is the 13th amendment?

Abolishes slavery in all of the US

Black Codes

Rules to control African Americans in the South

Impeach

To bring a president up on charges

Sharecroppers

A farmer who gives a share of their crops in exchange for using someone else's land

Poll tax

A tax in order to vote that african americans had to pay

15th ammendment

Grants the right to vote to any man regardless of race, religion, color, etc

Jim Crow Laws

Laws created in the South to enforce segregation between African Americans and White people

Segregation

The act of separating people based on race

Grandfather Clause

A law that stated if you could/could not vote based on if your grandfather could

Agriculture

Farming

What amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments?

13,14,15

What is the 14th Amendment?

Grants citizenship to anyone born in the US

How did lawmakers try to deny African Americans rights to vote?

Poll taxes and literacy tests

Why was Sharecropping considered "Slavery by Another Name"?

African Americans would get into debt with the land owner and be forced to work for free until the debt was paid off

What region of the US did sharecropping mostly take place?

South

The Southern economy was based on…

Agriculture

The northern economy was mostly based on…

Factories

How did lawmakers and politicians justify discrimination/segregation during Reconstruction?

Although they were separate, it was still equal.

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the SOUth to make money during Reconstruction

Scalawags

Southerners who supported the North

How was the South impacted by both the Civil War and Reconstruction?

The South was destroyed, physically an socially

Conflict

An argument or disagreement that could be between two people or even with whole countries