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Who was the 1st President during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
What happened to Andrew Johnson?
He was impeached
What is the term for freed slaves?
Freedmen
What is the 13th Amendment?
abolished slavery
What were Black Codes?
laws that were put into place to restrict Africans Americans freedom in the South
Who was the third President during Reconstruction?
Ulysses S. Grant
What years did the Reconstruction era take place?
1865-1877
What group was formed to oppose African Americans?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What is the 15th amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote
What were literacy tests?
tests that African Americans had to take to prove if they could read. If they couldn't read, they couldn't vote
Who was the president that kicked off the start of Reconstruction OFFICIALLY?
Andrew Johnson
Who's the person that assassinated the first president in the Reconstruction era?
John Wilkes Booth
What state was the first African American senator from?
Mississippi
What was the 14th Amendment?
Gave African Americans Citizenship
What are poll taxes?
a fee required to pay so you can vote
Who was the last President during Reconstruction?
Rutherford B. Hayes
What economic event shifted the focus from Reconstructing the country?
The Panic of 1873
What political party went to extreme lengths to gain support equality for African Americans?
Radical Republicans
What law was vetoed but still passed by Congress?
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
What is a scalawag?
Native white Southerners who joined the Republican party after the Civil War and advocated the acceptance of the congressional Reconstruction
Who was the first African American senator?
Hiram Revels
What was the final action that signaled the end of Reconstruction?
the withdrawal of Union troops from the south
What was one job that was made for Africans Americans after the Civil War?
Sharecroppers or Tenant Farmers
What was the Freedmen's Bureau and what did it do?
government agency that provided food, clothing and jobs to war refugees and built schools and provided teachers and education to former slaves
What is a carpetbagger?
Many former northern abolitionists and Union soldiers who moved to the South and risked their lives to help freedmen secure rights