Transcript Ulysses S. Grant Most successful commander of the Union

13th Amendment
Ended ALL Slavery in
the United States
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14
Amendment
Granted Citizenship and Equality
Under the Law to Anyone Born in the
U.S.
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15
Amendment
Right to Vote for ALL
Men Regardless of Race
Emancipation Proclamation
Document that Freed ALL
Slaves in the Southern States
or ‘Rebellious States’
Secession
To leave a country
I’m out of
here!
Ulysses S. Grant
Most successful
commander of the Union
forces in the Civil War
Freedmen
African Americans that were
freed from slavery
Radical
Name for those who wanted
to see rapid social change.
Especially in the south
Reconstruction
The time period following the Civil War
when the southern states faced harsh
punishment while being readmitted to
the union.
Sharecropping
Agricultural practice where a
landowner allows a tenant to
farm a portion of land for
payment in crops.
Black Codes
Laws passed in Southern
states after the civil war
with the purpose of limiting
African Americans rights.
Scalawags
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during
Reconstruction, often for personal profit.