Reconstruction Vocabulary

Reconstruction Vocabulary Chap 20 - in your notebook due Friday Literacy test (Boesken) Poll tax (Boesken) Radical Republicans Reconstruction Red Shirts-248 Robert Smalls-246 Scalawags Segregation Sharecropping Wade Hampton-248 Thirteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment 15th Amendment (XV)- (Fifteenth Amendment) Black Codes Carpetbaggers Compromise of 1877 Freedman’s Bureau Ku Klux Klan

Reconstruction The time period after the Civil War 1865-1877. Rebuild the States and society of the former Confederacy.

Carpetbagger Northerners who moved to the south during Reconstruction. This is a political cartoon about a group of Northerners who moved to the south during Reconstruction in order to make money.

Scalawag Southerners who joined the Northern Republican party for political gain during Reconstruction This man by the name of James Longstreet was a Southerner who became a Republican for personal gain.

13th Amendment The first Reconstruction Amendment ended slavery in the US. This is a poster created after the Civil War to celebrate the end of slavery in all of the United States.

Ku Klux Klan This is a secret society created by southern white supremacists that tried to intimidate African Americans after the war. They used violent tactics to restrict the rights of blacks and Northern Carpetbaggers

Freedman’s Bureau Federal organization set up to help freed slaves adjust to life after slavery. This picture shows a white woman teaching freed slaves in a school set up by this Federal organization created to help freed slaves adjust to life after the Civil War.

Black Codes Laws created by southern states to restrict the rights of newly freed slaves. This picture shows a sign that is only one example of how African Americans were discriminated against during the war.

14th Amendment This amendment gave African Americans citizenship. This image shows a black man and a white man showing that they are equal citizens of the United States.

Sharecropping A system created in which former slaves would work the land of plantation owners in return for food, housing and a small portion of the crops. This is a group of Freedmen who are working someone else’s field for a share of the crops.

Radical Republicans Congressional Republicans who wanted to control reconstruction and punish the south for secession. These two congressmen Henry Davis and Benjamin Wade created a strict Reconstruction plan that would punish the south

15th Amendment This amendment granted the right to vote to all men 21 and older. This image shows African Americans exercising their right to vote.

Literacy Test and Poll Tax Literacy test- test that test’s the ability to read or write in order to exercise the right to vote poll tax- requiring payment in order to vote; used to prevent poor blacks from casting votes.

Red Shirts Groups that formed to restore the power to the Democrats in the south. Wore red shirts to be more visible and threatening to Republicans.

Robert Smalls Born a slave in SC. One of the many African Americans elected to Congress during Reconstruction

Wade Hampton Wealth plantation owner in SC. Great military leader. Became Governor of SC in 1876, with the help of the “Red Shirts” Know as the “Savior of South Carolina”

Reconstruction Plans 1) Who developed the plan? 2) What are the goals? 3) Will the former Confederate states be allowed back into the Union? If so, how? 4) How does your plan address the rights of the newly freed African Americans? 5) Is the plan harsh, lenient, or moderate towards the former rebelling states? Directions: using your textbook, research the following plans for Reconstruction: Lincoln’s Plan, Andrew Johnson’s Plan, and Radical Republicans Plan. Textbook pages: 239-241