people of Reconstruction
He became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
the forced separation of people of different races in public places
What is segregation?
He was probably the real winner in the election of 1876, but did not serve because of a compromise in this close election.
Who was Samuel J. Tilden?
an agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South after the Civil War
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
In this agreement where both sides gave up something to reach an agreement, the Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as President in exchange for the Northern troops leaving the South.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This actor who supported the Confederacy assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
a fee charged to vote
What is a poll tax?
Southerners who supported northern Republicans
Who were scalawags?
This group used terror and violence to limit the rights of African Americans.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1868 Amendment made former slaves into citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This former Union general became our 18th President of the USA.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
when both sides give in a little in order to reach an agreement
What is a compromise?
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in this city.
What is Washington, DC?
These were laws in the South during Reconstruction that enforced segregation.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This act of Congress, passed in 1866, provided African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans. (hint alert!)
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This Republican became our 19th President in the Compromise of 1876.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
What is sharecropping?
Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction, and were not welcomed by many Southerners
Who were carpetbaggers?
This group wanted the federal government to force change in the South during Reconstruction.
Who were Radical Republicans?
This 1865 Amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Filling Jefferson Davis's seat in the Senate was this man, the first African American to serve in the US Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
What is impeachment?
This was the name of President Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
This Supreme Court decision allowed segregation as long as it was "separate but equal." (It rarely was.)
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
The 15th amendment, passed in 1870, allowed this to happen.
What is African American men gaining the right to vote?