Unit 5 quiz 2 US History Reconstruction – Flashcards
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Change in the United States Constitution which guaranteed voting rights regardless of group identity or previous condition of servitude.
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Carpetbagger
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A negative term used to describe Northerners who moved to Southern states following the end of the Civil War to establish businesses and help freed blacks.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Change in the United States Constitution which did not prohibit anyone's right to vote due to "previous condition of servitude."
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Scalawag
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A negative term used to describe a Southerner who was sympathetic to northern causes and the Republican Party after the Civil War.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Federal agency designed to help freed slaves and poor white farmers in the South following the end of the Civil War.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Change in the United States Constitution which defined citizenship and guaranteed one's right to "equal protection" under the law.
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