BCHS - RECONSTRUCTION REVIEW
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Reconstruction | the period during which the Confederate states were ruled by the Republican state governments and the Union was being put back together |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | A supreme court decision that stated separate facilites for different racial groups were legal |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| Freedman's Bureau | A Federal organization in operation after the Civil War that helped former slaves and war refuges with food, medical, and other aid as well as schooling. |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | divided the south into 5 military districts and stated the Confederate states could not rejoin the Union until they guaranteed equality for all citzens and ratified the 14th Amendment. |
| Radical Republicans | These individuals controlled the US Congress and demanded that the South be punished for leaving the Union and then pushed for the increase in the rights of African Americans following the Civil War. |
| Southern Democrats | When this group regained control of the South, they attempted to return things to pre-Civil War political and social status. |
| 14th Amendment | clarified that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without the due process of law, nor deny to any person within it's jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. |
| Jim Crow | the name of laws in the Southern states in the 19th and 20th centuries that forced the segregration of races. |
| Sharecroppers | Farmers who do not own the land they work but pay rent to the owner in the form of a share of the crop they grow. |
| Tenure of Office Act | President Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating this law. |
| 15th Amendment | amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied on the basis of race. |
| Presidential Plan for Reconstruction | This proposal attempted to re-unite the North and South as soon as possible following the Civil War. |
| Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes | These practices were used to prevent African Americans from voting despite the passage of a constitutional amendment. |
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