Reconstruction

Abraham lincoln

is remembered as a man who grew up in poverty but became the eloquent and humane president over the end of the slavery in the United states

Amnesty

This legal term means offical pardon or immunity from persecution

Black codes

a group of law passed in the former confederate states right after the civil war these laws were passed to limits the rights of newly freed African americans and to continue the white dominance that had existed under slavery

carpet baggers

was used to describe northerners who moved to the south forpolical or economic again.

Civil rights act of 1866

a law passed by the .u.s congress that granted citizenship to all men born in the United States regardless of their race or color or previous condition of slavery the law also said african American citizens would have all the same rights that white American had

disenfrachise

taking away someone rights to vote

fifteenth amendments

Gave us all male citizens the right to vote regardless of their race or previous status as enslaved people

fourteeth amaendment

Granted citizenship and legal rights to Africans Americans it established that anyone who was born naturalized in the United Americans it established that anyone who was born or naturalized in the United states was a citizen and the state could not deny the rights of any citizens.

frederick douglas

was born into slavery and as a boy he learned how to read which was illegal he escaped to massachusetts when he was about 20 years old became a leading speaker in the abolitionist movement worried about being recaptured he fled to great britiain. Abolitionist raised money and bought his freedom.

freedan bureau

a federal agency that congress created in 1865 during reconstruction to help newly freed African American it established hospital provided school food ration gave legal advice helped with employment and established schools for freed African americans

infrastructure

is a underlying foundation or frame work of a system orangizion or location it is often classifid as either hard or soft hard includes railroad bridges water system subway system and telecommunication soft is human capital or knowledge and skill along with the school and training preograms that developed it

jim crows laws

were a state and local laws in the south that made racial segregation separated by races legal these laws existed mostly in the southern state from the end of reconstation in the late 1870 until the 1960 the name comes from a character in a minstrel show the name came to be used as a degrading term

ku Klux klan

was a secret terrorist organization that formed in the south during reconstruction to maintain white supremacy and prevent afrricans americans from voting members of the orangization threated beat and killed Africans Americans and frecquently burned their homes and property they dressed in robes and hoods to frighten their victim and to avoid being identified by the law officials

plessy v. ferguson

A supreme court ruling that stated racial segregation in public paces was legal this case created the doctine of separated but equel the justice determines that seperate and supposedly equel facilities for white Americans and Africans didnt violate the fourteenth amendment requirement of equel protection of laws

poll tax

is collection on indivual people instead of their propertys or their incomes are sometimes a requirement for voting during the period of reconstruction after the civil war many African American began voting in southern state and southern legislature passed this to keep African American from voting

reconstruction

was a period in the United States history right now after the civil war during this period the south was readmitted to the United states and laws where passed to protect the rights of newly freed Africans Americans

scalawags