us history reconstruction

Reconstruction

the federal government controlled the states that had succeeded/to rebuild

Radical Republicans

republican leaders dedicated to enforcing harsh rules on rebelling states

Freedmans bureau

agency created to provide aid for formerly enslaved people

andrew johnson

stateman who became 17th president

Black Codes

restricted african american rights and opportunities

14th amendment

guaranteed full citizenship to everyone born in the us

15th amendment

voting to all males regardless of race

scalawag

southern whites who supported republicans after the civil war

carpetbagger

negative term for northeners who moved south for eeconomic opputunity

segregation

seperation of races

integration

bringing people togetehr

sharecropping

farmer tends to a portion of land in return for a share of the crop

enforcement acts

1870 and 1871 laws protected citizens right to vote

jim crow laws

state laws passed to enforce racial segregation of public facilities

Poll tax

a tax charged on voters

literacy test

reading and writing test used in some southern states to prevent aa from voting

grandfather clause

only allowed men whos father or grandfather had voted before 1866 or 67

booker t washington

pick yourself up by your bootstraps

web dubois

full and imediate integration and rights

ida b wells

journalist-no lynchings

Civil rights act of 1875-

banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation

compromise of 1877

rutherford b hayes elected if troops withdrew from south