Reconstruction - US History
black codes - ANSWER✅✅✅Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by
southern states following the Civil War
Bleeding Kansas (1856-1861) - ANSWER✅✅✅Early version of the Civil War in Kansas over the issue
of slavery in the territory, fought intermittently until 1861, when it merged with the wider national Civil
War.
Showed that the issue of balance of power between slave and free states was a big problem for the US.
carpetbagger - ANSWER✅✅✅A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War;
especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation
in southern states
Civil War (1861-1865) - ANSWER✅✅✅deadliest war in American history; conflict between north
(union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER✅✅✅forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote
because of race. All males 21+ can vote.
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER✅✅✅guarantees equal protection of the law, due process of law,
and rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in US
freedmen - ANSWER✅✅✅Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER✅✅✅government agency founded during Reconstruction to help
former slaves through things like creation of schools, but was not around long due to lack of
funding/support
grandfather clause - ANSWER✅✅✅Southern laws that excluded blacks from exercising suffrage by
restricting the right to vote only to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1865
Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER✅✅✅Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll
taxes limited black voting rights
black codes - ANSWER✅✅✅Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by
southern states following the Civil War
Bleeding Kansas (1856-1861) - ANSWER✅✅✅Early version of the Civil War in Kansas over the issue
of slavery in the territory, fought intermittently until 1861, when it merged with the wider national Civil
War.
Showed that the issue of balance of power between slave and free states was a big problem for the US.
carpetbagger - ANSWER✅✅✅A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War;
especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation
in southern states
Civil War (1861-1865) - ANSWER✅✅✅deadliest war in American history; conflict between north
(union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER✅✅✅forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote
because of race. All males 21+ can vote.
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER✅✅✅guarantees equal protection of the law, due process of law,
and rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in US
freedmen - ANSWER✅✅✅Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER✅✅✅government agency founded during Reconstruction to help
former slaves through things like creation of schools, but was not around long due to lack of
funding/support
grandfather clause - ANSWER✅✅✅Southern laws that excluded blacks from exercising suffrage by
restricting the right to vote only to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1865
Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER✅✅✅Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll
taxes limited black voting rights
