Vocabulary
What power does the House of Representatives and Senate have over an elected/public official?
What is the power to impeach
This Confederate sympathizer killed President Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln used this proclamation as a military tactic to create chaos in the southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This groups main purpose was to help former slaves adjust to their newly found freedom.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
These individuals from the North moved down to the South and supported Radical Republicans.
What is a carpetbagger
This former slave championed women's rights and would tour Europe, as well as write his autobiography, describing his life as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass
The theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What is the Ford's theater
These set of laws were created to control African Americans living in the South.
What are black codes
What is Corruption
She was the mother of Emmett Till who wanted the world to see what had happened to her son and help ignite the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s.
Who is Mamie Till
This amendment allowed all African Americans throughout the United States to receive their freedom and abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment
The purpose the the Ku Klux Klan was to...
What is enact fear and violence upon African Americans living in the South.
Abraham Lincoln provided former Confederate soldiers with an official pardon, otherwise known as...
What is amnesty
This individual would lose a son during the Civil War and his wife would have seances in order to connect to her dead son.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
He was the famous general who helped the Union win the American Civil War and would win the election of 1868.
Who is general Ulysses S. Grant
This clause states that if your father or his father voted before the Civil War then so could you..
What is the Grandfather Clause
After the Civil War, the Freedmen's Bureau had the task of helping newly freed slaves adjust to freedom, in addition to being able to _____________ into white society.
What is integrate
She was the woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her in her home town of Money, Mississippi.
Who is Carolyn Bryant
This president would be the first to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson
This amendment allows for all people born in the United States to automatically become American citizens.
What is the 14th amendment