Key Terms
Key People
Plans for Reconstruction
Discrimination Against
Miscellaneous
100
A personal tax to be paid before voting.
What is a poll tax?
100
President in 1864 who came up with the 10% plan for Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
_____ Republicans were in charge of Reconstruction in Congress.
What are "radical"?
100
This said that you would not have to take a literacy test to vote if your grandfather had been a registered voter.
What is the grandfather clause?
100
Southern whites that opposed slavery and the War.
What are scalawags?
200
Northern whites who sent south to start businesses or pursue political careers during Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
200
Lincoln's assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Radical Reconstruction required all southern states to write new constitutions and to do this.
What is ratify the 14th Amendment?
200
This idea, established in the Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson, said that states could set up different facilities for blacks and whites, as long as they were of the same quality.
What is "separate but equal"?
200
Impeached for violating the "Tenure of Office Act" and almost lost his job.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
A pardon, or forgiveness, to a group of people.
What is amnesty?
300
Founder of the KKK.
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
300
His plan called for the creation of new state governments in the south and required the southern states to ratify the 13th amendment. Congress rejected his plan because they didn't want former Confederate leaders to be restored to power.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
300
This is why Nathan Bedford Forrest created the Ku Klux Klan.
What is because some whites, who were angry about losing power to African Americans, wanted to use violence against them?
300
The South's choice for President in 1876.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
400
The secret society that scared blacks and their white allies.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
Won the Presidency in 1876 by secretly promising Democrats that he would end Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
This is why Lincoln supported the 10% Plan for Reconstruction.
What is he wanted to make it easy and quick for southern states to rejoin the Union?
400
These laws discriminated against African Americans.
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
This amendment defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
The laws passed by southern states that barred mixing of the races in most aspects of everyday life.
What are Jim Crow laws?
500
The nation's first African American senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
500
This is why Radical Republicans in Congress launched their own plan for Reconstruction in 1867.
What is they rejected President Johnson's plan as being too lenient, because they wanted to create real, lasting change in the South after the Civil War?
500
This is how most Southern whites reacted to Radical Reconstruction.
What is they were angry about the changes Radical Reconstruction brought to the South?
500
This kept African Americans in the South in a cycle of poverty.
What is sharecropping?
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