Reconstruction Vocabulary

What is a PARDON?

• An official release from punishment for a crime

• Required

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the

  seceded states and bring them back into the Union

Define COMPULSORY.

• Required

• To cancel

• A formerly enslaved person

• A temporary government

Define NULLIFY.

• To cancel

• Required

• A temporary government

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

What is a SCALAWAG?

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction

  government

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the

  seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of

  Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

What is a CARPETBAGGER?

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction

  government

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A formerly enslaved person

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War

  that used violence and terror against African Americans

Define RECONSTRUCTION.

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed

  by Southern governments after the Civil War

• Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.

Define JUNETEENTH.

• June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans

What is a FREEDMEN?

• A formerly enslaved person

• A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government

Define BLACK CODES.

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed

  by Southern governments after the Civil War

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War

  that used violence and terror against African Americans

• Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all

  levels of government.

• A temporary government

Define PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

• A temporary government

• An official release from punishment for a crime

• To cancel

• A Required Government