Radical Reconstruction (lesson 2 topic 9)

black codes

laws that severely limited the rights of freed african americans

radical republicans

A member of Congress during reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

Thaddeus Stevens

was a radical republican along with charles sumner

civil rights act of 1866

gave citizenship to african americans

fourteenth amendment

states if you are born in the US then you are a citizen

capability

ability or capacity

wade davis bill

proposed by davis where more than 50% of voters must swear loyalty

reconstruction act

it threw out the state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th amendment. All the formers confederate states except Tennessee. It also divided the southern states into five military districts, each governed by military general.

imposition

something applied or created based on authority

impeach

Bring formal charges against

Grant

elected president by Republicans because he was known as the union‘s greatest war hero

Fifteenth amendment

The right to vote no matter race, color or previous condition of servitude