US History-Topic 9 (Reconstruction)

reconstruction

the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

13th Amendment

an 1865 amendment to the United States constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation

Black codes

the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War

14th Amendment

an 1868 amendment to the US Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws

15th Amendment

an 1869 amendment to the US Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

Ku Klux Klan

a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence

sharecroppers

a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop

segregation

the legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Jim Crow Laws

laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South

Plessy vs Ferguson

an 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal