Geography
The region of the United States MOST affected by Reconstruction.
What is the SOUTH?
A government pardon of forgiveness.
What is amnesty?
Men and women freed from slavery were now known as this.
What is freedmen?
What is the 13th Ammendment?
This was the MAIN GOAL of reconstruction.
What is rebuilding the South and uniting the nation?
The first Confederate State admitted to the Union during Reconstruction.
What is TN?
One would do this to a president when you formally accuse him of a serious crime.
What is impeach?
Members of Congress who wanted stronger Reconstruction policies and voting rights for freedman were called this.
What is Radical Republicans?
These codes limited the rights of freed African Americans and kept them in a lower social and economic position.
What are Black Codes?
President Lincoln's reconstruction plan required a SOuthern state to do this before entering the Union.
What is have 10% of its voters swear loyalty to the US and agree to abolish slavery?
A south that was attempting to expand its economy and develop industry was called this.
What is New South?
This was a fee charged to people in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This group of people, clad in white gowns that hid their identity, used violence and threats to prevent African Americans from gaining political power.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This ammendment gave all citizens equal protection under the law in addition to allowing birthright citizenship.
What is the 14th ammendment?
The purpose of this Act was to divide all the Southern states into military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
A person who moved from the North to the South after the Civil War was called this.
What is a carpetbagger?
This is an examination used to determine whether or not a person could read.
What is a literacy test?
A person who rents land and pays the landowner with part of their crops is called this.
Who are sharecroppers?
This court case decided that segregation was perfectly legal as long as the facilities were EQUAL.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
White Southern Republicans were often called this term.
What is scalawag?
A rule that allowed people to avoid voting restrictions if their ancestors were able to vote.
What was a grandfather clause?
This was a government agency that provided help to freedmen and poor whites.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Laws that separated people of different races in public buildings.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Three things that were used to try and prevent African Americans from voting.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses?