Federal Government
This organization helped provide education, food and clothing for poor Southerners.
Freedmen's Bureau
How did Andrew Johnson become president?
Succeeded Lincoln after assassination
True or False: Frederick Douglass was born to freed African Americans and was therefore free himself.
False
Dishonest or illegal use of authority
Corruption
What is the period following the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
The Ten Percent Plan required ten percent of the voter's in each state to swear loyalty to who?
The Union
What did Congress pass to prevent the President from firing Government officials without the Senate's approval?
Impeachment Act
Tenure of Office Act
Overrides
Who is the first African American Senator to serve a full term in the Senate?
Blanche K. Bruce
Racially diverse
Integrated
What is a racist and secret society that used fear and violence to deny rights to African Americans?
Ku Klux Klan
What bill replaced the Ten Percent Plan?
Wade-Davis Bill
When President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, what did Congress do?
Impeached Johnson
President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th, 1865 while watching a play at what theater in Washington?
Ford Theater
Formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Impeach
What was the leading industry of the New South?
Music
Printing
Dairy Farming
Textiles
When Congress did not approve the suspension of Edwin Stanton, what did President Johnson do?
Fired Stanton
Demote Stanton
Impeach Stanton
What were laws that were designed to limit the freedom of African Americans?
Black codes
Buffalo Soldiers
The granting of a pardon to a large number of persons
Amnesty
What legislation was the 14th Amendment protecting?
The 1866 Civil Rights Act - granted citizenship to African Americans and allowed the federal government to protect African Americans.
What voting restriction made African Americans pay a tax in order to vote?
Poll Tax
Who wanted the Southern states punished after the Civil War and controlled Congress during President Johnson's tenure?
Radical Republicans
President elected in 1876 after President Andrew Johnson?
Double Points if Democrat nominee is stated.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Explain in your own words: Grandfather Clause
A device that allowed persons to vote if their fathers and grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began
What Amendment is this : "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states wherein they reside."
14th Amendment