Amendments
This amendment granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States.
Fourteenth Amendment
This act granted full citizenship to African Americans and gave the federal government the power to intervene in state affairs.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This man shot President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Scoundrel or worthless rascal
scalawags
This Amendment abolished slavery in all parts of the United States.
13th Amendment
This act required military commanders to begin registering voters and to prepare for new state constitutional conventions.
Second Reconstruction Act.
This person became president despite losing the popular vote.
Hayes
dishonest or illegal actions
Corruption
This amendment prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of race, colors or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
This act prohibited the president from removing government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate's approval.
Tenure of Office Act.
While the war was going on President Lincoln offered his first plan for accepting the Southern states back into the Union.
Ten Percent Plan
coming together again
reconciliation
This act called for creation of new governments in the 10 Southern states that had not ratified the 14th. this act dived them into 5 districts.
First Reconstruction Act.
This President was on the road to being impeached but Congress couldn't get 2/3 votes.
Andrew Johnson
a fee people had to pay before they could vote
poll tax
This act pardoned most former Confederates.
Amnesty Act.
This court case decided that segregation would be allowed as long as African Americans still had equal opportunities.
Plessy v. Ferguson
crops that could be sold for cash
cash crops