Reconstruction Vocab

An amendment (in 1865) added to the Constitution that ended slavery, and any other forms of involuntary servitude, in the U.S.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Black Codes

An amendment (in 1868) added to the Constitution that granted citizenship to newly freed African Americans with all their civil and political rights

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Black Codes
• 13th Amendment

An amendment (in 1870) added to the Constitution that stated no American could be denied the right to vote based on their race

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

Laws passed (in 1866) in Southern legislation that restricted the freedom and movement of newly freed African Americans

• Black Codes
• Carpetbaggers
• Compromise of 1877
• Jim Crow Laws

Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction and made a profit and created tensions in society

• Carpetbaggers
• Civil Rights Act
• Suffrage
• Southern Terrorist Groups

A law (in 1866) that declared blacks to be citizens and forbade any discrimination amongst citizens based on race. If rights were violated, then the federal troops could be used for enforcement

• Civil Rights Act
• Compromise of 1877
• Carpetbaggers
• Suffrage

This was an unwritten deal that settled the 1876 presidential election win of Rutherford B. Hayes. This deal ended the Reconstruction legislation in Southern states and pulled the federal troops from the South

• Compromise of 1877
• Freedman's Bureau
• Civil Rights Act
• Carpetbaggers

An organization founded in 1865 that provided education, assistance, and justice to newly freed individuals as they maneuvered a newly emancipated status

• Freedman's Bureau
• Jim Crow Laws
• Compromise of 1877
• Civil Rights Act

These are laws that enforced racial segregation in the South that began in 1877 with the end of Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Freedman's Bureau
• Compromise of 1877

Individuals in Congress who wanted full citizenship and voting rights for African Americans and strict regulations for the South to rejoin the Union

• Radical Republicans
• Reconstruction
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Jim Crow Laws