All About Abe
The plan in which ten percent of voters needed to take an oath of loyalty before a state could rejoin the Union
Ten Percent Plan
Acts passed by Southern states to limit African American freedom
Black Codes
The political party of Southern Conservatives
Democratic Party
The amendment that effectively ended slavery
13th Amendment
The exception to poll taxes & literacy tests designed to protect white voters
Grandfather clause
The actor who killed Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The way the South was governed during Radical Reconstruction
Five Military Districts
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction
Scalawags
The amendment that expanded citizenship, particularly to African Americans
14th Amendment
A type of farming that trapped African Americans and poor whites in a cycle of debt
Sharecropping
The organization created to help newly freed African Americans with employment and education
Freedmen's Bureau
The result of President Johnson's impeachment
Acquittal by one vote
Northerners who moved to the South
Carpetbaggers
The amendment that expanded and protected voting rights, particularly to African Americans
15th Amendment
The Act restoring the right to vote to most white Southerners
Amnesty Act of 1872
Lincoln's Vice President, who becomes President after his death
Andrew Johnson
The President elected after Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
The secret organization founded to terrorize African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
The President who ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
Three places where segregation existed
schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, cemeteries
The Reconstruction Bill proposed by Congress after Lincoln proposes his initial Reconstruction plan
Wade-Davis Bill
The two of the three requirements necessary for Southern states to rejoin the Union
Write new constitutions, Ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, Give African Americans the right to vote
The "fresh start" for African Americans proposed by some Radical Republicans
40 Acres & a Mule
The part of the 14th Amendment that ensured equal protection under the law
Equal Protections Clause
The Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson