Reconstruction Vocabulary and People to Know

Radical Republican

• Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

Carpetbaggers

• Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

Scalawags

• Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

Freedmen's Bureau

• Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans

• Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction

• Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies

• Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

Constitutional Amendment that officially ended slavery in the US forever

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Constitutional Amendment, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding states from restricting the basic rights of citizens

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Constitutional Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Amendment that ended slavery.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Constitutional Amendment that gave freedmen citizenship

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Constitutional Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment