Vocabulary
A Literacy Test
What was the nickname given to the agreement made between Democrats and Republicans to end Reconstruction after the controversial election of 1876?
Bargain of 1877
Which U.S. President was the first to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Which organization tried to provide relief to newly freed slaves, including through finding them houses, jobs, and educating them?
Freedmen's Bureau
Which group of people wanted to punish the south after the Civil War, even though Lincoln and Johnson were trying to be more lenient?
Radical Republicans
Bringing formal charges against a public official is called_________.
Impeachment
White southern politicians who wanted to return the south to the way it was before the Civil War called themselves...
Redeemers
Who became President after the controversial election of 1876?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Which Amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to all people born in America?
14th Amendment
Which state was the only Confederate state not to be put under military occupation after the Civil War?
Tennessee
Which group was a secret society that donned white robes with hoods and threatened African Americans while shouting threats and burning crosses?
Ku Klux Klan
Which "Unconditional" general would later go on to become the 18th President of the United States?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who won the popular vote in the election of 1876, but didn't become President?
Samuel Tilden
Many former slave owners would offer "jobs" to their slaves after the war through what practice?
Sharecropping
Which Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in the entire country?
13th Amendment
Enforced separation of races.
Segregation
A name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political office was ______.
Carpetbaggers
Which former Confederate general created the Ku Klux Klan as a sort of men's club before it turned into a radical terrorist organization?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
On Easter Sunday 1873 a massacre of African Americans occurred at this location at the hands of former Confederates and members of the KKK.
Colfax, Louisiana
Which Amendment made it so that all people would be allowed to vote in American elections regardless of race?
15th Amendment
Laws used by southern states to control African Americans were referred to as....
Black codes
Southern whites who had opposed secession were called ________.
Scalawags
Who was the first African American governor in U.S. history (from Louisiana)?
Pickney B.S. Pinchback
Which famous Supreme Court decision said that laws of segregation were allowed as long as they were "separate but equal?"
Plessy vs. Ferguson
As westward expansion continued in the 1870's-90's, which group of people began to fight back against the United States?
Native Americans