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An American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
a Republican U.S. Senator, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.
Hiram Revels
government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
Men and women who have been enslaved
Freedmen/Freedwomen
A bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis Bill
The 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency as he was vice president of the United States at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson
an American businessman, publisher, and politician. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War
Robert Smalls
It banned slavery throughout the nation
13th Amendment
carried out by state actors
Extrajudicial actions
An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session
Pocket Veto
An American soldier, politician, and international statesman who served as the 18th president of the United States. During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and he led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy.
Ulysses S Grant
an African-American member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1871 to 1874
Robert Brown Elliott
It defined citizens as “all persons born or naturalized in the United States (It did not apply to most Native Americans)
14th Amendment
to Confederates who swore loyalty to the Union. Would not apply to the former leaders of the Confederacy
Pardon/Amnesty
An act of murdering someone
Assassination
the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served also as an American representative and governor of Ohio
Rutherford B. Hays
an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
Andrew Jackson
It forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of “race”, color or previous conditions of servitude
15th Amendment
the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s
Thaddeus Stevens
an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who also served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797
George Washington
an American white supremacist hate group
Ku Klux Klan
a Southern state could form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
10% Plan
Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
Black Codes