Because of their vast numbers, they controlled the Presidency as well as Congress during Reconstruction.
Who were the radical republicans?
100
It ended slavery.
What was the 13th amendment?
100
This Supreme Court case validated the concept of "separate, but equal".
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
First shots fired in this federal area of South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
President of the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
The Military Reconstrction Act put these people in the South to enforce the laws passed by the radical republicans.
Who were Union or federal troops?
200
He was President during most of Reconstruction.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
200
The two main legal ways African Americans were kept from voting.
What were poll taxes and literacy tests?
200
Most of the battles were fought in this region.
What was the south?
200
Union general who wasn't a great strategist, but never quit in his pursuit of Confederate forces.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This side was in economic ruins when the war was oover?
What was the South?
300
It made freed slaves citizens & gave them equal protection (supposedly).
What was the 14th Amendment?
300
He pushed for African Americans to get into vocational education and was more acceptable of segregation.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
300
It gave the north complete control of the Mississippi River.
What was Vicksburg?
300
President of the Confederate States of America?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
Unable to purchase land after the war, many former slaves became these after the war when they rented farm land, causing many to live in poverty for the rest of their lives.
Who was sharecroppers?
400
Former Confederate General who urged Southerners to reconcile and rejoin the union. He also made education an important compomnent of his life.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
400
This agreement ended reconstruction when it made Rutherford B. Hayes president and removed troops from the south.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
400
Lincoln felt compelled to issue the Emanicpation Proclamation after this battle in Maryland.
What was Antietam?
400
Lincoln's assassin.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
500
This was formed to keep many of the newly freed slaves from enjoying their rights.
What was the KKK?
500
It gave freed male slaves the right to vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
500
He dismissed segregation and pushed for African Americans to go to college to become professionals.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
500
The Pennsylvania battle that turned out top be the turing point of the war.
What was Gettysburg?
500
He surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virgina.