Reconstruction
Important Vocabulary
Reconstruction:
Impeach:
13th Amendment:
14th Amendment:
15th Amendment:
Jim Crow Laws:
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The era after the civil war that was dedicated to rebuilding American Society.
Remove from office.
The amendment that was established that abolished slavery.
Anyone born or nationalized in the united states is a U.S. citizen.
Prohibits the states from denying a citizen the right t vote.
Laws that limited the freedoms of African-American citizens.
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Free Citizens Vote
A Mile in Their Shoe's
Ex-Confederate Soldier
".. as old as I am, I can still ride on horseback and wield a sword; and if her quota (S. Carolina) is not filled, if there is one name lacking to make it full, I myself will volunteer. This is our country and it is our duty to make it the champion of freedom for all time to come." - ex-Confederate General Wade Hampton |
Carpetbegger
“Could you just imagine? If every suicide rose--think of Faulkner's Quentin Compson as a vampire. I don't hate the South I don't I don't. She wondered how they'd have worked it out in Cambridge when Quentin threw himself off the Andersen bridge into the Charles amid the odor of the honeysuckle, not the beer, sweat, rum, and tainted magnolias of this city, precariously beneath the level of the water. The Compson blood had thinned out; at least this way, he's restore it after a fashion.” |
Freedman
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - Joseph Campbell |
Women
"What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals , what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance" -Clara Barton |