A | B |
Black Codes | laws passed by Southern States to control newly freed African Americans. Some limted their right to own or rent property. Some made it easier for White employers to take advantage of African Americans. |
Poll Tax | A tax paid to vote |
Scalawags | Southerners who supported the Republican party and helped them after the War. |
Carpetbaggers | Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of the South. |
John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
13 Amendment | Ended Slavery |
14th Amendment | Made former slaves citizens |
15th Amendment | Gave African Americans the right to vote |
First Reconstruction Act | Divided the South into five military districts each governed by a military General. Required states to form New Governments. It banned former Confederate leaders from serving in the new governments |
Second Reconstruction Act | Empowered the Army to register voters in each district. |
Removal of the Military from the South | What ended Reconstruction in the South |
Amnesty | President Johnson's Reconstruction plan granted what to most Southerners? |
10% Plan | Plan for reconstruction proposed by Lincoln |
Freedmen's Burea | Established by Lincoln it provided food, clothing and medicine for poor southerners especially freed African Americans |
Reconstruction | Term that refers to the rebuilding of the South after the War. |
Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed in the South passed to force segregation of the races |
Segregation | Dividing the population by race. |
Plessy vs Ferguson | Supreme Court Case that said Separate facilities were okay as long as they were equal. |