1. 13th Amendment Ended ALL Slavery in the United States

2. 14th Amendment Granted Citizenship and Equality Under the Law to Anyone Born in the U.S.

3. 15th Amendment Right to Vote for ALL Men Regardless of Race

4. Emancipation Proclamation Document that Freed ALL Slaves in the Southern States or ‘Rebellious States’

5. Secession To leave a country
I’m out of here!
Secession To leave a country

6. Ulysses S. Grant Most successful commander of the Union forces in the Civil War

7. Freedmen African Americans that were freed from slavery

8. Radical Name for those who wanted to see rapid social change
Radical Name for those who wanted to see rapid social change. Especially in the south

9. Reconstruction The time period following the Civil War when the southern states faced harsh punishment while being readmitted to the union.

10. Sharecropping Agricultural practice where a landowner allows a tenant to farm a portion of land for payment in crops.

11. Black Codes Laws passed in Southern states after the civil war with the purpose of limiting African Americans rights.

12. Scalawags a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.