ESWBAT: Understand and use vocabulary for the Reconstruction Era by having students sharing the words they defined. Do Now: Video Clip on Reconstruction

Reconstruction Era Process of rebuilding the government and society in the south after the Civil War. 1863 to 1877.

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.

Fourteenth Amendment (adopted on July 9, 1868) grants citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws to all races

The Fifteenth Amendment (was ratified on February 3, 1870) grants the right to vote

Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) Makes constitutional state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the idea of "separate but equal".

The Jim Crow laws (black codes) laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 at the state and local level. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states "separate but equal"

KKK: They first played a violent role against African Americans in the South during the Reconstruction Era of the 1860s.

Carpetbagger a Northerner (Yankee) who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War, in order to profit from the instability and chaos that existed at this time.

Scalawag: a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, (often for personal profit.) The term was used by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.

Radical Reconstruction: The Radical Republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites. Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War.

Freedmen’s Bureau: as a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction Education and JOBS

Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.

A VICIOUS CYCLE OF DEBT ECONOMIC SLAVERY 1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land. 6. Sharecropper cannot leave the farm as long as he is in debt to the landlord. 2. Landowners need laborers and have no money to pay laborers. ECONOMIC SLAVERY 3. Hire poor whites and freedmen as laborers Sign contracts to work landlord’s land in exchange for a part of the crop. 5. At harvest time, the sharecropper is paid. Pays off debts. If sharecropper owes more to the landlord or store than his share of the crop is worth; 4. Landlord keeps track of the money that sharecroppers owe him for housing, food or local store.

A literacy test refers to the government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens to be allowed to vote. If failed can not vote

The Grandfather Clause to deny suffrage (right to vote to black Americans on the premise of if their grandfather did not vote they could not vote.

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, (1865 to 1869) VP under Lincoln Favored lenience (easy on) south after War His plans did not give protection to the former slaves, and he came into conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress impeached by the House of Representatives. The first American president to be impeached, he was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.

Ulysses S. Grant. was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). As commanding general, Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy led the Radical Republicans in their effort to remove the remainders of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protected African-American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.

Compromise of 1877: unwritten deal Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.

Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the United States (1877–1881). oversaw the end of Reconstruction began the efforts that led to civil service reform, attempted to fix the differences still left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Booker T. Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. His long-term goal was to end the disfranchisement of the vast majority of African Americans living in southern states

William “Boss” Tweed was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall One of the most corrupt political official in NYC History.