Presidential Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln's vice president
Who was Andrew Johnson?
accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office
What is impeach?
became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Who was Andrew Johnson?
outlawed slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
laws Southern states passed that limited the rights of black Americans
What are Black Codes?
Confederate leader who remained in prison after many were pardoned.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
a Northerner who moved South to get a government job after the Civil War
What is a carpetbagger?
immigrants and black people often became ________ who branded cows
What are cowboys?
prevented states from denying black people the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
laws the Democrats passed during Reconstruction to segregate black people and discriminate against them
What are Jim Crow laws?
The first part of President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
What is approve the Thirteenth Amendment?
a white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction
What is a scalawag?
The railroad played a large role in the settling of the West by bringing these people west
What are easterners?
defended civil rights
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
when a person takes the law into his own hands
What is vigilante justice?
Second part of Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
What is admit that secession was wrong?
to separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion
What is segregate?
George Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse were leaders involved in this battle
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure that new governments had racial equality
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867
secret group that used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The third part of President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
What is cancel war debts?
the act of cheating to gain something unlawfully
What is fraud?
Conflict abounded in the West between ranchers and these workers
What are sheepmen?
provided food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners and set up schools for black people
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
brought opportunity to some and injustice to others