Reconstruction

TEST on SEPTEMBER 14

As you and your class cover these terms, people, and events, please add your knowledge to our learning community. Include definitions, examples, pictures, charts, or videos that help you to remember these factoids. Do not just post a link to someone else's page - get the stuff on THIS page so that THIS is the place to be to learn about this unit!

Use the bulleted list provided for you for the structure of the page. Then, use the indented bullets for your added information. Create a new bullet by hitting return. Create new bullets for each new fact or piece of information! Text Book Pages •189 - 191 •192 - 201

Vocab to Know •Assassination◦The killing of an important person or elected official.

•Discrimination◦It is when Whites didn't allow Blacks to be equal with them

•Disenfranchisement◦

•Impeachment◦When Presidents are tried for crimes. ◦They may or not be found guilty of those crimes. The trial itself is called the impeachment hearnings

•Executive Branch◦The President and his staff

•Legislative Branch◦Makes the laws ◦Congress

•Judicial Branch◦The court system ◦Includes the Supreme Court - the highest in the land ◦When the Supreme Court rules on something, it IS law

•Lynching◦

•Prejudice◦

•Racism◦

•Segregation◦

•Reconstruction◦It is when after the Civil War that the South had to start reconstruction from the loss they suffered from the North.

•Sharecropping◦It is when Whites said to Blacks you could use some of my land

•Tenant Farming◦

•White Supremacy◦They are against Blacks. ◦

•Succession◦

Events to Know

•Sherman's Field Order #15 (more commonly called "40 Acres and a Mule")◦It is when the goverment promised Blacks stuff but never came through with it

•The Black Codes◦

•13th Amendment◦ Gave the right of freedom to the slaves

•14th Amendment◦ Gave the right of citizenship to the freedmen

•15th Amendment◦ Gave the right to vote to black men

•Impeachment of Andrew Johnson◦

•Compromise of 1877◦

•Civil War: 1861 - 1865◦

•The Start Of State Secession◦

People / Groups to Know

•Andrew Johnson◦

•Rutherford B. Hayes◦

•Willam Tecumsen Sherman◦

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