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Grade 6 ▪ First and Third Nine Weeks ▪ US History Vocabulary ▪ Reconstruction
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13th Amendment
(1865)
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14th Amendment
(1868)
Banned slavery in the United
States and any of its territories.
Grants citizenship to all persons
born in the United States and
guarantees them equal protection
under the law.
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15 Amendment
(1870)
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Ensures all citizens the right to
vote regardless of race or color
or previous conditions of
servitude.
Granted full citizenship to
African American and gave the
federal government the power
to intervene in state affairs to
protect their rights.
Name given to Northern whites
who moved South after the Civil
War and took advantage of the
South during Reconstruction.
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Reconstruction
The name given to the time
period of reorganization and
rebuilding of the South
following the Civil War.
Grade 6 ▪ First and Third Nine Weeks ▪ US History Vocabulary ▪ Reconstruction
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Black Codes
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Abraham Lincoln
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A government agency formed
after the Civil War to help
African Americans make the
transition from slavery to
freedom.
Laws passed in the South just after
the Civil War aimed at controlling
freedman and enabling plantation
owners to exploit African American
workers.
16th President
Proposed Reconstruction which
called for reconciliation. He believed
preserving the Union was more
important than punishing the South.
Robert E. Lee
Commander of the Confederate Army.
Following the war, urged Southerners to
reconcile and reunite as Americans. Later
became the President of what is now
known as Washington and Lee University.
Frederick Douglass
An African American who fought for
adoption of constitutional
amendments that guaranteed voting
rights. He was a powerful voice in
human rights and civil liberties for
all.
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