Plans for Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting the former Confederate states into the Union.
Reconstruction
Dishonest or illegal actions.
Corruption
To reside somewhere without permission.
Squat
The first American President to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
Laughable imitation
Mockery
To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office.
Impeach
The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group; separation of one group from another.
Segregation
A hard biscuit made from flower and water.
Hard tack
While he served two terms as president from 1868 to 1876, his presidency was plagued by scandal and corruption.
Ulysses S. Grant
A provision allowing people to vote if their father or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began.
Grandfather clause
To temporarily set aside or stop operation of something.
Suspend
A tax a person must pay in order to vote.
Poll tax
An American white supremacist hate group founded in 1865/1866 in Tennessee, known for promoting racism, anti-semitism, and violence to intimidate Black Americans and other minorities.
Ku Klux Klan
He won the election o president in 1876 by 1 vote, and promises to remove federal troups fro the South.
Rutherford B Hayes
The granting of a pardon to a large number of people, protecting them from prosecution.
Amnesty
To reject or defeat something that has already been decided.
Override
A system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner and receives a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
To be given the rights of citizenship
Enfranchise
This actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated President Lincoln on April 24, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
This ammendment to the Constitution guarenteed that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
The Fifteenth Amendment
Laws passed in the South aimed at controlling freed men and women and allowing plantation owners to take advantae of African American workers.
Black codes
A name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction in the South.
Scalawags
Hanged from a tree.
Looking up a sap in
The first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Hiram Revels
A derogatory term for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often seeking political power, economic profit, or to aid in rebuilding.
Carpetbagger