1. Reconstruction
Vocabulary

2. 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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

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

17. 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”

18. 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.
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