1. Reconstruction

2. Time period after the Civil War when the South needed to be rebuilt.

3. This will help you support your family!
Freedmen
To All Freed Slaves:
Forty acres and a mule!
This will help you support your family!

4. Former slaves who were trying to make it on their own after the Civil War

5. Radical Republicans More power to freedmen!
Let’s make the South suffer!

6. Members of Congress who helped freedmen gain rights during Reconstruction

7. Impeach

8. To bring charges against a political official (like the president) for doing something wrong

9. TRAITOR to southern values!
Scalawag
Yeah, I’m a southerner but I do agree with Republicans that the freed slaves need more rights!
TRAITOR to southern values!

10. White Southerners who supported the Republican actions to give freedmen more rights

11. Carpetbagger Northern States Southern States
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12. Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction to make money

13. Black Codes STOP! STOP! Economic Power for Political Power for
African Americans!
STOP!
Political Power for
African Americans!

14. Southern laws that limited African-American rights after the Civil War

15. Abolitionists rejoice! Slavery is officially over!
13th Amendment
Abolitionists rejoice! Slavery is officially over!

16. Ended
Slavery!

17. 14th Amendment
Proud to be
an American

18. Gave African-Americans citizenship

19. African-Americans get this right before women!
15th Amendment
African-Americans get this right before women!

20. Gave African-Americans the right to vote

21. Sharecropper

22. Person who rents and farms a plot of land
Person who rents and farms a plot of land..and receives a share of the crop.

23. Poll Tax

24. Required a fee to be paid in order to vote

25. Literacy
Test

26. Law which required people to be able to read in order to vote

27. Grandfather
Clause

28. This allowed a person to vote if their father or grandfather had voted

29. Klan works to intimidate African-Americans.
Ku Klux Kan
(KKK)
Klan works to intimidate African-Americans.
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30. Secret society formed in the South after the Civil War to reestablish white superiority using violence.

31. Segregation

32. Legally separated people by race (or other differences).

33. Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but Equal
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Separate but Equal
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34. Supreme Court Case that legalized segregation and said “separate but equal” is fair

35. Jim Crow Laws Segregation in the United States!

36. Laws that enforced segregation between blacks and whites