kinds of things people did and were
person who rents a plot of land from a landowner and in return is given a percentage of crops to sell or eat.
What is sharecropping?
The nation's first black senator, opposed the law that separated blacks and whites.
Hiram Revels
southern laws that severely limited the African Americans
What are Black Codes?
A president who ended Reconstruction
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Another name for the 10% Plan
What is the Presidential Reconstruction Plan?
southerners who agreed with the North's ways. (were considered traitors in the south)
What are Scalawags?
Born into slavery in South Carolina. Impersonated as a white ship captain on a CSA Planter and brought it to the Union Navy.
Who is Robert Smalls?
when white southerners would take African American vagrant families kids to "teach" them as their parents find jobs
What is Apprenticeship?
President during Civil War and was the first president to be assassinated.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Congressional plan that made 50% of white men to swear loyalty. Wouldn't the former confederates to vote.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
northerners who came south to gain wealth and more political power
What are carpetbaggers?
Born free, had photographic memory, helped to stop the KKK.
Who is Robert Elliot?
stated that if their grandfather was able to vote on January 1, 1867, then they wouldn't have to take a literacy test
what is the Grandfather Clause?
War hero in the Civil War, sent soldiers to the south to enforce the amendments
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Ended the Reconstruction Plan.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
the state of being homeless
What is vagrancy?
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
required voters in the south to pay a fee each time they voted
what is Poll Tax?
Was a Democrat running against Rutherford B. Hayes Lost to make a compromise withe Hayes to end the Reconstruction
Who is Samuel Tilden
government organization during the Reconstruction Plan that helped former slaves
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
republicans in congress who were in charge of the Reconstruction
what are Radical Republicans?
famous actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
African Americans are equal with whites and are able to vote, hold in office, and can be a jury
What is the Ku Klux Klan Bill?
Took over Abraham Lincoln's presidency after his assassination. was voted to be impeached. Made southerners beg him to give them their land back.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Banned slavery throughout the nation. Had a loophole that the southerners took advantage of
What is the 14th amendment?