Reconstruction 1
This person assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
This person replaced Abraham Lincoln as president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This was a tax that people had to pay in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This word means to bring formal charges against a public official (such as a president).
What is impeachment?
This was Lincoln's Reconstruction plan that required 10% of a southern state's voters to swear loyalty to the Union.
What was the 10% plan?
These people were slaves who had been freed by the Civil War.
This word means a pardon issued to a group.
What is amnesty?
This Civil War general became president after Andrew Johnson and used the army to fight against groups such as the KKK.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This group controlled Congress and favored strict policies towards former Confederate states.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These were laws put in place by many southern states to control freedmen. For example, blacks could not vote or sit on juries.
What were Black Codes?
This organization was created to provide relief for people displaced by the war. It also established schools for freed slaves and helped them find work.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
This type of warfare has few restrictions weapons and targets. Often times civilian populations can become targets.
What is total war?
This amendment to the Constitution formally abolished slavery and forced labor.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Under this amendment to the Constitution, all persons born in the US are considered American citizens. Citizens are also guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Under this system of farming, a landlord allows a tenant to use a portion of his land in exchange for a portion of his crop. This kept many blacks and poor whites trapped in a cycle of poverty and debt.
What is sharecropping.
These were Northern whites who went south after the Civil War to start businesses or become politicians.
Who were the carpetbaggers?
This bill would have required 50% of a Confederate state's voters to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This court case ruled that racial segregation was legal as long as facilities were separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Fergusson?
This amendment to the Constitution extended the right to vote to all men.
What is the 15th amendment?
What are scalawags?