Chapter 17 vocab
Pardon
what is an office release form a punishment for a crime
A formally enslaved person.
What is a freedman?
The 16th president.
Who was Abraham Lincon.
The 16th president who helped free the slaves.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction.
What is a Scalawag?
Nullify
What is to cancel
Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by southern governments after the civil war.
What are the black codes?
Compulsory.
What is required?
A person who wanted Texas to return to the union quickly and peacefully. He called for the election of delegates to a constitutional convention.
Who was Hamilton?
An official release from a punishment for a crime.
What is a pardon?
A secret Organization of white men formed after the civil war that used violence and terror against African-Americans.
What is the K.K.K?
To cancel.
What in nullification?
A man who took up the reconstruction plan after president Lincon after he died.
Who was Andrew Johnson
A republican who believed Congress should control reconstruction.
What are radical republicans?
Reconstruction
June 18th the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
A republican Governor who exercised great power while in office.
Who was Governor Davis.
The first African American elected sheriff in the United States.
Who was Walter Moses Burton
A northerner in the south working for a reconstruction government.
A carpetbagger.
Radical republicans
What is a republican who Bellevue that Congress should direct reconstruction
The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the union.
What is reconstruction?
A temporary government.
What is provisional government?
The man who killed president Lincon.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by southern governments after the civil war.
What are the black codes?