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Year that the Civil War ended
What is 1865?
Formal accusation of a crime against a public official by a legislative body
What is impeachment?
This word is used to describe the forced separation of people by race
What is segregation?
paying to vote
What is a poll tax?
Laws passed in the south that limited the freedoms of the former slaves
What are black codes?
This Amendment stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the Fifteenth amendment?
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
First president to be impeached?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
exempted people from literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfathers had voted before the Civil War
What is Grandfather Clause?
rights of freedom belonging to each citizen of a country
What is civil rights?
Federal agency set up to help the freed African Americans in the south
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A test which was used in the south to try to prevent African Americans from voting
What is a literacy test?
Presidents that have been impeached
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump?
Secret organization that formed in the South during Reconstruction to maintain white supremacy
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
to kill someone illegally by mob action without a legal trial, usually by hanging
What is lynching?
State and local laws in the south that made racial segregation legal
What is Jim Crow laws?
Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public places was legal
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This amendment stated that all people born in the United States were citizens and had the same rights
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Length of the Civil War
What is four years?
Name of the place that Lincoln was assassinated
What is Ford's Theatre?
She was a pioneering Black journalist and an activist for women's rights and the suffrage movement. She sued the railroad company for how she was treated.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
This famous Civil War hero became president after Andrew Johnson
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant to end the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House?
The legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land
What is sharecropping?