What was the period of time following the US Civil War when the US needed to be put back together?
Reconstruction Period
What were the Congressmen called who wanted to punish the South?
Radical Republicans
What president made the deal that ended Reconstruction by agreeing to pull the military out of the South?
Rutherford Hayes
Southern militia that terrorized African Americans and Southern Republicans
KKK
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
amendment that said all people born in the US are citizens
14th
Civil War hero and Republican elected in 1868 and 1872
Ulysses Grant
laws that segregated the South
Jim Crow laws
Name one of the problems the government needed to solve following the Civil War?
South back into Union/which government branch controls Reconstruction/how to integrate freedmen/how to rebuild South
Act that placed the South under military control
Reconstruction Act
amendment that allowed African Americans to vote
15th
Supreme Court that allowed segregation, saying "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
amendment that abolished slavery
13th
1st impeached president
Andrew Johnson
system that replaced slavery by keeping workers in a cycle of debt
sharecropping
Southern laws that kept African Americans from voting or owning property
Black Codes
Why did Congress dislike Andrew Johnson?
lenient on South
Why couldn't Andrew Johnson stop Congress from passing what they wanted?
2/3 majority
Compromise of 1877
government agency created to assist former slaves
Freedmen's Bureau