Vocabulary
Southerns who supported the carpetbaggers.
What are Scalawags?
This Amendment granted African Americans and all persons born withing the US citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Did Johnson's plan want to A) punish the south B) go easy on the south
What is B) go easy on the south
Denied African Americans the right to own property, vote, travel, or own guns
What are Black Codes?
As farming became less profitable due to cotton overproduction and the boll weevil devastation, white workers moved from farming to _________?
What are Textile Factories?
Rebuilding the country's social, economic and political status after the civil war.
What is Reconstruction?
These are added to the US Constitution granting rights for the American people.
What is an Amendment?
This plan pardoned all southerners if 10% swore allegiance to the Union.
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
This group was formed to maintain white supremacy in the south.
What is the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)?
Why did the Southerners want the soldiers in the South to leave and go back to the North?
What is to get back control of their state governments?
When people are separated by race
What is Segregation?
This Amendment granted voting rights to all male citizens within the US.
What is the 15th amendment?
1865 to 1877 was known as the period of...
What is the Reconstruction Era?
These laws separated whites and blacks (segregation)
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The KKK used this tactic to reach their goals.
What is intimidation and violence?
Northerners who came to the South to start businesses
What are Carpetbaggers?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are referred to as...
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This plan pardoned most confederates who swore loyalty to the Union.
What is Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
Someone that uses violence for political reasons.
Who is a terrorist?
The House of Representatives had to decide the winner of this election because of voter fraud.
What is the Election of 1876?
System developed to keep plantations running after slavery was abolished.
What is Sharecropping?
Lets' take it back a few years. Although the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the US what was the first action taken by President Lincoln to end slavery in the Union in 1863. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Federal agency formed to provide food, clothing, medicine, and schools for the freedmen.
Who was Freedmen's Bureau?
When voters cheat in an election.
What is Voter Fraud?
Southerners agreed to support the election of the Republican candidate if the soldiers in the south would go back to the north.
What is the Compromise of 1877?