People
Offered the first plan for bringing Southern states back into the Union
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The name of Lincoln's plan
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
offering forgiveness for crimes committed
What is amnesty?
The place of Lincoln's assassination
What is Ford's Theater?
Where the first slaves were sent
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This person becam president after Lincoln was assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This plan defined: To rejoin the Union, a state must meet three requirements
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
When a president refuses to sign a bill
What is a "pocket veto"?
Congress divided the former Confederacy in this way
What are military districts?
What those who opposed slavery were called
What are abolitionists?
Lincoln's assassin
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This Amendment outlawed slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This states that the president cannot remove government officials without the Senate's approval
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
What is the 15th Amendment?
This compromise attempted to resolve the issue of the spread of slavery
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This group was determined to make the former Confederacy's return to the Union difficult for the white South
Who were the Radical Republicans?
These laws were created to help control the newly freed African Americans
What are the "black codes"?
When a president is removed from office because of wrongdoing
What is impeached?
The Constitution makes the president the Commander in Chief of the
What is military?
The political party of Abraham Lincoln
What is Republican?
Grant was able to win the election because of the support from
Who were the African Americans?
This gave the federal government the power to get involved in state affairs to protect African Americans' rights
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
to temporarily stop someone from working
The number of former Confederate states that did not ratify the 14th Amendment
What is 10?
The court case that decided that slaves taken to a free state and then brought back were still considered slaves
What is the Dred Scott decision?