Plans
The 10% Plan required this percentage of these people in a state to support rejoining the United States.
10% of voters
This amendment banned slavery throughout the U.S.
The 13th Amendment
This person was nearly impeached because of his opposition to Congress's version of Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
Southern states tried to oppose Reconstruction by passing these kinds of laws.
Freedman
Former slave
This person wanted to be lenient towards the South as they rejoined the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race.
The Freedman's Bureau assisted freedpeople and poor southerners by doing these two things.
Building schools and colleges.
This terrorist group was founded in response to the 14th Amendment.
The Klu Klux Klan
The process of readmitting former Confederate states back into the Union
These people wanted to be strict towards the South as they rejoined the Union.
Radical Republicans
The 14th amendment clarified that citizens are anyone "____________________" in the U.S.
"Born or naturalized"
When the Klu Klux Klan gained power, Congress passed these laws in order to stop them.
The Enforcement Acts
This system kept freedpeople in debt as they worked land owned by former slaveowners.
Sharecropping
Amnesty
Total legal forgiveness for past crimes
Congress divided the South into these.
Military Districts
When someone is duly convicted of a crime
Support for Reconstruction began to weaken when this event made people want to focus more on the economy.
The Panic of 1873
To prevent black Americans from voting, Southern states instituted these two things.
Poll taxes; literacy tests
Impeachment
The process of Congress putting a federal official; if convicted they are removed from office
Congress required states to ratify this amendment in order to become a state again.
The 14th Amendment
This amendment made sure states could not "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
The 14th Amendment
This person was elected to the presidency in exchange for Reconstructions' end.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The Supreme Court said segregation of races was legal so long as they were "_________ ____ ________."
Separate but equal
Scalawag
A Southern person who voted Republican