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100
16th president
What is Abraham Lincoln?
100
13th Amendment
What is made slavery illegal in the US?
100
Laws that limited African Americans' freedoms during Reconstruction.
What is black codes?
100
Period of reuniting and rebuilding the South following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
100
Process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
What is impeachment?
200
17th president
What is Andrew Johnson?
200
14th Amendment
What is granted citizenship to former slaves?
200
Act giving African Americans the same legal rights as whites.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
200
Secret society that used violence to oppress African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
18th president
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
15th Amendment
What is gave African American males the right to vote?
300
Laws passed to protect African American rights and placed the southern states into military districts.
What is Reconstruction Act?
300
Explain the Ten Percent Plan.
What is 10% of southerners had to take the oath of loyalty to the US?
300
Special tax people had to pay before they could vote.
What is poll tax?
400
19th president
What is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
2nd Amendment
What is right to bear arms?
400
Agreement in which Democrats accepted Hayes's election as president in exchange for removing federal troops from the South.
What is Compromise of 1877?
400
Organization established by Congress to provide relief for the South's poor people.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Supreme Court case that upheld segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
The president who had impeachment charges brought against him during Reconstruction.
What is Andrew Johnson?
500
All five of the first amendment rights
What is freedom of speech, religion, the press, right to peacefully assemble, the right to petition the government?
500
Laws that enforced segregation.
What is Jim Crow laws?
500
Republicans who wanted more federal control in Reconstruction.
What is Radical Republicans?
500
System in which farm laborers kept some of the crop and gave the rest to the landowner.
What is sharecropping?
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