Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln

Is remembered as a man who grew up in poverty but became the eloquent human president who presided over the end of slavery in the United States.

Amnesty

This legal means official pardon or immunity from persecution.

Black codes

A group of laws passed in the former Confederate states rights after the civil war.

Carpet Baggers

Was used to describe Northerners who moved to the south for political or economic gain

Civil Rights Act of 1866

A law passed by the U.S. Congress that granted citizenship to all men born in the United states

Disenfranchise

Taking away someone’s right to vote

Fifteenth amendment

Gave all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote

Fourteenth Amendment

Granted citizenship and legal rights to African Americans

Fredrick Douglas

Was born into slavery and as a boy he learned how to read, which was illegal

Freedman’s Bureau

A federal agency that Congress created in 1865

Infrastructure

Is the underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location.

Jim Crow Laws

Were state and local laws in the south that made racial segregation, and seperation by race legal

Ku Klux Klan

was a secret terrorist organization that formed in the south during Reconstruction to maintain white supremacy and pervent African Americans from voting.

Plessy v. Ferguson

A supreme Court ruling that stated racial segregation in public places was legal.

Poll Tax

Is collected on individual people instead of on their property or their income

Reconstuction

Was the period in United States history right after the Civil War during this period the south was readmitted to the United states

Scalawags

Were southerners who supported the federal Reconstruction plan and the Repulication Party.

Share cropping

A landower provides the workers with housing,food

Tenant farmer

A person who lives on and farms land that is owned by someone else.

Thirteenth Amendment

Formally abolished slavery in the United States.