To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office.
What is impeach?
100
To end separation of different races and bring into equal membership in society
What is integrate?
100
Settling by agreement or coming together again
What is reconciliation?
100
Putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob
What is lynching?
200
The Wade Davis Bill
What bill offered a plan much harsher than Lincoln’s first?
200
Control freed men and women and to enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers.
What did the black codes aim to do?
200
Hiram Revels
Who recruited African Americans for the Union army, started a school for freed African Americans in Missouri, and served as chaplain of an African American regiment in Mississippi?
200
An act passed by congress which pardoned most former Confederates
What is the Amnesty Act?
200
“Redeemers” because they had “redeemed,” or saved, the South from Republicans rule.
What did the Democrats call themselves?
300
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee
What three states did the Union army occupy?
300
Granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States
What did the Fourteenth Amendment grant?
300
A group that wore white sheets and hoods while launching “midnight rides” against African Americans
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Violence
What did the Democrats do to persuade African Americans not to vote?
300
He headed a group that urged Southerners to “out-Yankee the Yankees” and build a “New South.”
What did Henry Grady do?
400
The vice president who became president after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
Divided the 10 Southern states into 5 military districts and placed each under the authority of a military commander until new governments were formed.
What did the First Reconstruction Act do?
400
The Freedmen’s Bureau and private charities
Who played a major role in spreading education?
400
Seven Republicans, seven Democrats, and one independent
What was the special commission congress created made of?
400
A poll tax which is a fee that people had to pay before voting
What did Southerners require to vote that African Americans couldn’t afford?
500
Form a new government and adopt a new constitution that had to ban slavery.
What did the Southern states have to do in order to become part of the Union?
500
214 votes
How many votes did Ulysses S. Grant receive?
500
A defense against Republican rule
What did Southerners see violence as?
500
That what the South needed most was the restoration of “wise, honest, and peaceful local self-government.”
What Rutherford B. Hayes declare in his Inaugural Address?
500
Greater equality and began creating their own institutions
What did African Americans gain under Reconstruction?