Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

• The President in 1992

• The President after Abraham Lincoln

• The President during the Civil War

• The Secretary of State

Reconstruction

• The period of rebuilding after the Civil War

• The time period during the Civil War

• The law that abolished slavery

• The phase of the Civil War in which most weapons were made

Radical Republicans

• wanted to give more power to southern slaveholders and stop requiring repayment of Civil War debts

• wanted to legalize slavery and reward wealthy slaveholders

• wanted to take over the South and rebuild it exactly like the North

• wanted to take power away from slaveholders and give African Americans citizenship

Freedman's Bureau

• government agency that helped freed blacks and poor whites

• government agency in charge of freeing slaves

• organization started by freed blacks after slavery was abolished

• a charity that set up the Underground Railroad

black codes

• laws that restricted African Americans' lives

• laws that allowed African Americans to live as freely as whites

• also known as Jim Crow laws

• processes by which enslaved people could become free after the Civil War

Fourteenth Amendment

• Gave blacks the right to vote

• Prevented states from giving blacks the right to vote

• Prevented states from denying rights of any U.S. citizen

• Gave all U.S. citizens the right to vote

Fifteenth Amendment

• Allowed states to choose to give African Americans the right to vote

• Prevented states from giving African Americans the right to vote

• Prevented African Americans from having the right to vote

• Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote

Hiram Revels

• Vice President who fought for African American rights

• first black state governor

• first black senator

• first African American to vote

sharecropping

• sharing of the farming labor between all parties

• sharing of farm crops with poorer citizens

• system in which former slaveholders and former slaves divided the land

• system in which landowners leased land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops

ku klux klan

• Southern terrorist group that no longer exists

• Southern vigilante group who used violence against blacks

• Advocacy group for equal rights

• A group of Southern blacks who had concerns about the post-war life