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This agency was set up to help former slaves and poor white southerners.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
This states 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 the 15th Amendment?
These laws severely limited the rights of former slaves.
What are Black Codes?
This formally abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Rebuilding of the South by the federal government after the War Between the States.
What is Reconstruction?
They were a new class of nearly 4 million people after the Civil War.
Who are freedmen?
A secret society that worked to keep African Americans and white republicans out of office.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
An 1863 proposal by President Lincoln in which a small percentage of each Southern states' voters needed to swear loyalty to the Union and abolish slavery.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
Who shot Lincoln and where did the shooting take place?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Eligible voters were required to pay this before they could cast a ballot.
What is a poll tax?
Who took over as President after Lincoln was assassinated?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
to bring formal charges against President Johnson is referred to as this
What is impeach/impeachment?
a formal pardon
What is amnesty?
The 1864 Republican reconstruction plan in which the majority of whites must swear loyalty to the Union, and former Confederate volunteers could not vote or hold office.
What is the Wade-Davis bill?
White Southerners who supported the new Republican government in the South.
Who are scalawags?
Northerners who moved South after the Civil War?
What are carpetbaggers?
With no land, no money, and in debt, many freedmen and poor whites were forced to become these.
What are sharecroppers?
Those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting is known as this.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
These separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, cemeteries, and other places.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Who was the governor of Ohio who won the disputed election of 1876?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This ruling by the Supreme Court stated that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
Who won the popular vote in the election of 1876?
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
This was legal separation of the races.
What is segregatin?
The period in 1867 when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and took charge of reconstruction.
What is Radical Reconstruction?