vocab 1
government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
What is Freedman's Bureau?
an 1867 law that threw out the Southern state governments that has refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
What is the Reconstruction Act?
the act of bringing charges of serious wrongdoing against a public officia
What is Impeachment?
the act of a mob to illegally seize someone and then execute them
What is Lynching?
the quality of being fair and impartial
What is Equity?
the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities
What is Equality?
a thing that required voters to pay a fee each time they voted
What is Poll Tax?
to murder (a usually prominent person) by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons
What is Assassination?
a system of farming in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land
What is sharecropping?
Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
What is Black Codes?
members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to ensure the freedman received the right to vote
Who is Radical Republicans?
he was the Vice President and became President after Abraham Lincoln was Assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
the white leader of the Radical Republicans
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
a plan where Southern States could form a new government if 10 percent of their voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
What is 10% Plan?
rebuilding the South after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
being without a home and no employment
What is vagrancy?
the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense
What is Pardon?
secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
What is Ku Klux Klan?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is 15th Amendment?
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
What is 14th Amendment?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
What is 13th Amendment?
a clergyman and teacher that became the nation’s first black senator in 1870
Who is Hiram Revels?
law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
What is Grandfather Clause?
it happened because of the South’s inflation, rebuilding and lack foreign investment
What is Panic of 1873?