People
Republicans who wanted more federal control in
Reconstruction
What were Radical Republicans?
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the
Union following the end of the Civil War
What was Reconstruction?
Southern laws that greatly limited the freedom of African
Americans
What were Black Codes?
Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public
places
What is segregation?
The first African American senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, which required that 10 percent of voters in a state pledge loyalty to the United States before that state could rejoin the Union
What was the Ten Percent plan?
The process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public
official
What is impeachment?
Laws that enforced segregation
What were Jim Crow laws?
created the Ten Percent plan which required that 10 percent of voters in a state pledge loyalty to the United States before that state could rejoin the Union
Who is Lincoln?
An organization established by Congress to provide relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
act giving African Americans the same legal rights as whites
Civil Rights act of 1866
System in which farm laborers kept, or shared, some of the crop
What was sharecropping?
The vice president who became president upon Lincoln’s death.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the United States
What is the Thirteenth amendment?
Amendment giving African American men the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Supreme Court ruling that upheld segregation
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Leader of the Radical Republicans, who wanted racial equality for all Americans
Who was Thaddeus Stevens ?
States readmitted to the union during Reconstruction
What are Confederate states?
Amendment guaranteeing citizens equal protection of
laws
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Special tax people had to pay before they could vote
What was poll tax?