Amendments
The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments are referred to as what? (think era)
The Reconstruction Amendments
The 16th President of the United States. Delivered the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color
segregation
provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
Freedmen's Bureau
a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
impeachment
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
13th
Became the 17th president, after Lincoln's assassination
Andrew Johnson
restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
black codes
device for restricting voting rights
Poll Tax
the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.
This amendment granted citizenship rights to African-Americans, and it states that citizenship cannot be taken from anyone
14th Amendment
First African American senator of the United States
Hiram Revels
state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
Jim Crow laws
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
sharecropping
They were distinguished by their fierce advocacy for the abolition of slavery, enfranchisement of black citizens, and holding the Southern states financially and morally culpable for the war
Radical Republicans
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote
Leader of the Radical Republicans
Thaddeus J. Stevens
"separate but equal" is a most associated with this Supreme Court case
Plessy v. Ferguson
would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people
Ten Percent Plan
Which Union General from the Civil War was the pioneer behind Special Field Order #15, or “Forty Acres and a Mule”?
The 15th Amendment did not include what groups of people?
He led the Union army to victory, then led the United States as their 18th president.
Ulysses S. Grant
declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude. vetoed by Andrew Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Nathan Bedford Forrest began this organization in 1865.
The Ku Klux Klan
What committee was Homer Plessy a part of, and acted under while fighting racial injustice and white supremacy?
Citizens Committee