ReconstructionImportant Vocabulary
Reconstruction:the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed
Impeach:call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice)
13th Amendment:abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
14th Amendment:citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws
15th Amendment:Gave the former slaves to vote
Jim Crow laws: were racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States
13th Amendment= "Free"
14th Amendment= "Citizens"
15th Amendment= "Vote"
A Mile in their Shoes
Ex-Confederate Soldier
Facts:returns from the Civil War to find your home in ruins
1.your slaves were freed and your resources drained
2.farm and family are torn apart because of the war
3.Reconstruction should be easy for the South since it was their right to succeed
Quote:"I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency."
Carpetbagger
Facts:investor from the North who traveled South after the war seeking economic gains in the southern Reconstruction governments
1.Your bags are made of carpet
2.You work with scalawags
3.Most of your business will result in purchasing properties for taxes
Quote:" Not but I've every reason not to care
What happens to him if it only takes...
Some of the sanctimonious conceit
Out of one of those pious scalawags"
Freedman
Facts: you are realizing your life has changed
1.The ex-Confederate still offers some problem to you because of the black codes and property rights.
2.the basic survival needs (food, clothing, medical care), finding employment and locating their families
3.Survival is the most important aspect of your life
Quote:A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it
Women
Facts: regardless of race were all found in the same position as the war began
1.you struggled with the double burden of keeping your homestead and farm running without the help of the men.
2.also had to support the soldiers at the battlefront
3.Your day was spent working the fields, sewing, cooking, binding, shucking and loading grain for what seemed an eternity
Quote:"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Reconstruction:the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed
Impeach:call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice)
13th Amendment:abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
14th Amendment:citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws
15th Amendment:Gave the former slaves to vote
Jim Crow laws: were racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States
13th Amendment= "Free"
14th Amendment= "Citizens"
15th Amendment= "Vote"
A Mile in their Shoes
Ex-Confederate Soldier
Facts:returns from the Civil War to find your home in ruins
1.your slaves were freed and your resources drained
2.farm and family are torn apart because of the war
3.Reconstruction should be easy for the South since it was their right to succeed
Quote:"I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency."
Carpetbagger
Facts:investor from the North who traveled South after the war seeking economic gains in the southern Reconstruction governments
1.Your bags are made of carpet
2.You work with scalawags
3.Most of your business will result in purchasing properties for taxes
Quote:" Not but I've every reason not to care
What happens to him if it only takes...
Some of the sanctimonious conceit
Out of one of those pious scalawags"
Freedman
Facts: you are realizing your life has changed
1.The ex-Confederate still offers some problem to you because of the black codes and property rights.
2.the basic survival needs (food, clothing, medical care), finding employment and locating their families
3.Survival is the most important aspect of your life
Quote:A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it
Women
Facts: regardless of race were all found in the same position as the war began
1.you struggled with the double burden of keeping your homestead and farm running without the help of the men.
2.also had to support the soldiers at the battlefront
3.Your day was spent working the fields, sewing, cooking, binding, shucking and loading grain for what seemed an eternity
Quote:"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.