Reconstruction Vocabulary
The murderer of President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Required 50% of a state's white males to sign a loyalty oath to be readmitted into the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This Black code restricts the ability for a Black man and White man to play Pool or Billiards within the same vicinity
What is Pool and Billiards (Alabama)?
This army General had marched his army from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
Who is General Sherman?
The indirect veto of a legislative bill by the President or a Governor retaining the bill unsigned
What is a Pocket Veto?
To question the integrity or validity of a (presidential) practice
What is Impeachment?
When one tenth of the number of voters who had participated in the 1860 election had taken the loyalty oath within a certain state, that state could launch a new government
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
This Black Law restricts the marriage of a Black Male and a White Female, or between a Black Female and a White Male.
What is Intermarriage (Arizona)?
These Southern States had looked the same as an enormous battlefield after the Civil War
What are Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia
Provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
A person who farms on rented land
What is a Tenant Farmer?
This plan envisioned pardons that would be granted to those who had taken the loyalty oath
What is Johnson's Plan?
This Black Code restricts a Black barber from cutting the hair of a White Female
What is Barbers (Georgia)?
Twice as many Americans died during this War than in World War II
What is the Civil War?
Declared all people born or colonized in the United States as citizens
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
When an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work
what is Debt Peonage?
This Reconstruction Group believed that Black people were entitled to the same (political) rights and opportunities as White people
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The following Black Code stops students of different skin colors from attending the same school
What is Education (Florida)?
This Black man was a spokesman for Black Americans for over half a century
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Someone who behaves mischievously, but not in a harmful or damaging way
What is a Scalawag?
An official pardon for people who have been convicted of (political) offenses
What is Amnesty?
This plan required the entirety of a state's slaves to be abolished in order to be readmitted to the Union.
What is Johnson's Plan?
This Black Code prohibits the ability for students with different skin color from attending the same Reform School as one another
What is Reform Schools (Kentucky)?
These laws, written by Southern Whites, recognized the changed status of Black people
What are the Black Codes?
An American white supremacist hate group who's goal was to suppress and victimize newly freed slaves
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?