Important People
American stage-actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Which amendment banned forced labor?
13th amendment
The Freedmen Bureau focused on promoting what?
Education
A group pardon
Amnesty
Who introduced the ten percent plan in December 1863?
Abraham Lincoln
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on.....
The citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What percentage of people needed to swear their loyalty to the Union under Lincoln's plan, before they could be re-admitted?
10%- 10% Plan
New laws used by southern states to control African Americans
Black Codes
The 16th president of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
Who became citizens after the passing of the 14th Amendment?
African Americans
Which bill passed much stricter plans for reconstruction?
Southern whites who opposed secession
scalawags
Who represented Mississippi as a U.S Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first African American to serve a full term in the senate?
Blanche Bruce
Which amendment barred all states from denying African American males the right to vote?
15th Amendment
Who won the presidential election in the fall of 1868?
General Ulysses S. Grant
A name given to southerners by northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political office
Carpetbaggers
African American arrested for sitting in the "white only" section on a railroad car, the court case ruled for separate but equal treatment
Homer Plessy
Which amendment guarantees birthright citizenship?
14th Amendment
How did congress feel about Andrew Johnson's plan?
Congress quickly rejected his ideas
Who won the popular vote in the election of 1876 but did not win the overall election?
Samuel L. Tilden