Reconstruction Era Flashcards
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Essential terms for understanding Reconstruction, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the rise of Jim Crow.
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- Reconstruction (1865-1877)
- Federal effort to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved people after the Civil War
- 13th Amendment (1865)
- Abolished slavery throughout the United States
- 14th Amendment (1868)
- Granted citizenship and equal protection under law to all born in the US
- 15th Amendment (1870)
- Prohibited denying voting rights based on race — gave Black men the vote
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Federal agency (1865-1872) that provided food, education, and legal help to formerly enslaved people
- Black Codes
- Southern laws that severely restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people, recreating slavery in all but name
- Jim Crow Laws
- State laws enforcing racial segregation across the South after Reconstruction ended
- Ku Klux Klan
- White supremacist group founded 1865 that used terror and violence to undermine Black political rights
- Compromise of 1877
- Political deal that made Hayes president in exchange for removing federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction
- Sharecropping
- System where formerly enslaved people farmed land owned by whites in exchange for a share of the crop — kept many in a cycle of debt
- Radical Republicans
- Congressional Republicans who pushed for strong Reconstruction policies and full rights for Black Americans
- Carpetbaggers
- Northerners who moved South after the Civil War, some to help with Reconstruction and others to profit from it
- Scalawags
- Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party — considered traitors by many white Southerners
- Poll Tax
- A fee required to vote — used after Reconstruction to disenfranchise Black voters who couldn't afford to pay
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