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The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth.
Supreme Court case ruling that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A government pardon.
What is amnesty?
Man who became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Secret society to help White Southerners regain power.
What is the KKK?
Northerners who Southerners believed were in such a hurry to get rich from the South's misery that they threw what few clothes they had into a cheap suitcase.
What is a carpetbagger?
Defined citizenship and gave equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Bring formal charges against.
What is impeach?
The period after 1867 when congressional Republicans took control of Reconstruction.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is two voting restrictions for African Americans in the South?
Clergyman and teacher who became the nation's first black senator.
What is Hiram Revels?
Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen.
What are black codes?
Legal separation of races.
What is segregation?
President who promised to end Reconstruction.
Who is President Grant?
A method of renting and farming a plot of land from an owner in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time.
What is sharecropping?
Atlanta journalist who gave stirring speeches describing the "New South"
What is Henry Grady?
Required new state governments in most southern states and divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
Laws that stated that if a voter's father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on 1 January 1867, the voter did not have to take a literacy test.
What is grandfather clause?
A reconstruction plan introduced by Republicans that was harsher than Lincoln's plan.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Laws aimed at the legal separation of the races.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Radical Republican leader from PA in the House of Representatives.
What is Thaddeus Stevens?
Forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Men and women who had been slaves.
What are Freedmen?
Lack of jobs for 80,000 soldiers
What is an economic problem in the North?
Use of natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North.
What is the "New South?"