Reconstruction Vocabulary

3. white southerners who joined the republicans party
5. the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society
7. abolished slavery in the U.S.
8. southern democrat who became president after Lincoln’s assassination
12. the 1st black senator
15. the right to vote in political elections
17. gave African Americans citizenship and forbade discrimination and black codes
18. bill that proposed that Congress be responsible for reconstruction and majority of the states voters had to swear to the union
19. constitutional right to reject a decision made by law-making body
20. government program that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the south

1. granted citizenship to all persons born/naturalized in the U.S. (including former slaves) “equal protection of the laws”
2. laws passed by southern states which restricted black peoples rights
4. violent terrorist group with the goal of restoring white supremacy and preventing African Americans from using political rights
6. compromise where Democrats agreeed to have a republican president and in return U.S. military government control would be removed from the south.
9. guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodation, transportation, and prohibited exclusion form jury service.
10. name for northerners who moved south after the civil war to make a profit
11. name given to southern Democrats that reclaimed control of their state legislatures during reconstruction
13. plan by Lincoln that confederate states could be readmitted to the union when 10% of the states voters swore allegiance to the union
14. 19th president
16. guaranteed African-American men the right to vote