African American Struggles
Sharecropping
The Wade-Davis Bill required what percent of voters to take a loyalty oath to rejoin the Union?
50%
This person took the presidential office following the assassination of Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Slavery can be used as punishment for a crime
13th Amendment
Did Rutherford B. Hayes win the electoral or popular vote in the election of 1876.
Electoral
What were 2 obstacles put into place that made it difficult for Americans Americans to vote?
Literacy Test
Poll Taxes
Andrew Johnson wanted to require what percent of voters take a loyalty oath to rejoin the Union?
10%
This was a person who moved to the south following the Civil War
Carpetbagger
14th Amendment
What were the similarities between Johnson's Reconstruction Plan and Congress' Plan?
Ratify the 13th Amendment
What did Jim Crow Laws do in the South?
Segregation
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Granted Hayes the presidency, removed troops from the south, and the Federal Governemnt would pay to rebuild the south.
This group strongly supported emancipation long before the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
Granted African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
What was the role of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Helping newly freed African Americans
What 2 groups used violence against African Americans trying to carry out their civil rights in the south?
KKK
White League
What was the Amnesty Act of 1872?
Pardoned ex-Confederate members
Scalawag
This gives citizenship to those born or naturalized in the Us (except Native Americans)
14th Amendment
This document freed slaves from states that were succeeding
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the Grandfather Clause?
If your grandfather was able to vote prior to 1866 you were exempt from the poll tax and literacy test.
Johnson was impeached for violating what act?
Tenure of Office Act
This person was a Radical Republican who did not agree with many of Johnson's ideas for Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Name and describe the 3 Reconstruction Amendments.
13th-Ended involuntary servitude.
14th-Equal protection of the law.
15th- prohibits denying citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.
These were put into place to oppress African Americans
Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws