Road through Reconstruction Study Guide I
Amendments & Supreme Courts Cases
Thirteenth Amendment
Important Facts
Ended/banned slavery in the United States
Fourteenth Amendment
Citizenship to Blacks and full protection under
the law (life, liberty & property).
Fifteenth Amendment
Right to vote regardless of race, color or
previous condition of servitude.
Robert E. Lee:
 Became president of Washington College which is now known as Washington and Lee University.
Abraham Lincoln:
 Reconstruction plan called for reconciliation, Preservation of the Union.
Frederick Douglass:
Wanted constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights, powerful human voice for human rights
and civil liberties for all.
Terms
Definition
Reconstruction
rebuilding the South and bringing the southern states back into the Union
Freedman’s Bureau
Civil Rights Act of 1866
established by Congress to assist former slaves including food, medical care and
education
northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political
power
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)
Black Codes
laws created by Southern governments to limit the rights of former slaves
Carpetbaggers
Effects of Reconstruction
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Southern military leaders could not hold office.
“Carpetbaggers” took advantage of the South during Reconstruction.
African Americans gained equal rights given by the Civil Rights Act of 1866; federal troops to enforce.
Northern soldiers supervised the South.
Freedman’s Bureau established aid to former slaves in the South.