Thirteenth Amendment

13th

Ended/banned slavery

Fourteenth Amendment

14th

Citizenship to Blacks and full protection under the law (life, liberty & property).

Fifteenth Amendment

15th

Right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

Black Codes

laws created by Southern governments to limit the rights of former slaves

Segregation

It kept Blacks and Whites separate

Reconstruction

rebuilding the South and bringing the southern states back into the Union

Freedman’s Bureau

established by Congress to assist former slaves including food, medical care and

education

Carpetbaggers

northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money

and political power

Civil Rights Act of 1866

granted full citizenship rights to freedmen, giving them the same rights

as whites

Discrimination

treating someone unfairly because of their race, gender, religion, or place of birth

Racial

having to do with someone's race (i.e. color of their skin)

Robert E. Lee

Urged Southerners to reconcile at the end of the war and reunite as Americans President of Washington College

Abraham Lincoln

Reconstruction plan called for reconciliation (make-up/get back together)

Frederick Douglass

Wanted constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights