Unit 5.4 Vocab

Thirteenth Amendment

Refers to the amendment that abolished slavery and involunatry servitude in the US. Only except in terms of punishment as a crime.

Fourteenth Amendment

granted citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US including former slaves.

Fifteenth Amendment

Granted African American men the right to vote. It prohibited states from denying voting rights based on race, color, or preious condition of servitude.

Radical Republicans

Radical rpeiblcians were a faction from the Republican party who sought to punish the south for secession and to secure equal rights for freedom.

Black Codes

Refers to laws passed in the South after the Civil War that aimed to rstricitng freedoms of African Americans and ensuring a stable labor force.

Scalawags

were southern whites who supported reconstruction and were aligned wth the republican party. This also included Unionists or those who sought to rebuild the southern economy post war.

Carpetbaggers

were northern-born republicans who moved to the south afte the civil war, most likely with the intention of seeking political or economic opportunities.

Enforcement Acts

Refers to a series of laws passed by Congress with the goal of protecting african americans from violence and discrimination in the south, for example from groups like the KKK.

Sharecropping

A system of agricultural labor that came from the south, it involved landowners allowing free african americans and poor white farmers to work the land in exchange fr a share of th crops produced, rather than a fixed amount of money.

Redeemers

Refers to southern democrats who sought to restore white rule and undo reconstruction reforms.

Compromise of 1877

Refers to an informal agreement that ended the presidential election of 1876, and marked the end of reconstruction in the South.