Freedmen's Bureau - This Bureau was formed to help the four (4) million freed slaves to make the transition from slave to free people., Black Codes - laws set up by formerly Confederate states that limited freedpeople's freedom., enslaved - one who is a slave, emancipation - the freeing of someone from slavery, former(ly) - before this time, amend(ment) - to make a change by adding, subtracting, or substituting, Reconstruction - 1863 (or1865:) to 1877, Civil War - 1861-1865, 14th Amendment - Gave Freedpeople citizenship and equal rights and equal protection under the law, Sherman's Field Order No. 15 - General Sherman's order to take government confiscated land in SC and Ga. and give it to newly freed people., scalawags - White southerners nicknamed white southerners who supported Reconstruction in the South, Rad. Republicans - This group of Republicans wanted freedpeople to not just be free but to also have equal rights as citizens., ratified - approved/ made official, sharecropping - a farming system in which freedpeople do the farming and land owners provide land and tools., 13th Amendment - Created by US Congress and made slavery in the USA illegal, carpetbaggers - White southerners nicknamed Northerners who came south with bags made out of carpet, 15th Amendment - this law gave freedmen the right to vote and protected freedmen's right to vote, President Johnson - canceled Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15, MIlitary Reconstruction - set up new requirements for southern states to be readmitted to union: each state had to create a new government that included Black men.  , SC Constitution of 1865 - This constitution accepted the 13th Amendment but that was all., Radical Republicans - a group in the US Congress who felt Johnson was too easy on the South, Compromise of 1877 - Agreement in which Democrats would agree to declare Hayes the winnerof the presidential election if US troops left the South., Joseph Rainey - He was the first Black man to serve in the US House of Representatives, Civil Rights Act of 1866 - A Law that said that ALL people born in USA were citizens and guarenteed them equal protection under the law., Military Reconstruction - The south was divided into 5 military districts. Military was sent to each district to prevent violence and protect freedpeople., Francis Cardozo - He was the first Black South Carolinian to be elected to a state office., The Rollins Sisters - This group worked for civil rights, women's suffrage (rights) and became teachers in Columbia's Freedmen's Bureau schools., Ku Klux Klan - Group of people who had been slaveholders & could not accept that Black people had equal rights. They used terror to keep Black people from exercising their rights. , Wade Hampton - He became governor of SC in 1877 and urged his supporters to show "force without violence.",

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