Vocab
An organization founded to help freedmen with food, education, and housing.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
He became president after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Whose plan for Reconstruction was called the “10 Percent Plan”?
Who was Abraham Lincoln
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Reconstruction period began right after this war ended.
What was the Civil War?
Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans.
What were Black Codes?
This Union general later became president in 1868.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Which president wanted to be lenient on the South and vetoed many Radical Republican bills?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Year Lincoln was assassinated.
What was 1865?
This white supremacist group used violence to stop African Americans from voting.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
Term for Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction.
What were carpetbaggers?
Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to ______ the South before readmitting states.
What is punish or reform
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Johnson was impeached for violating this law.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
Farming system where freedmen rented land and paid with a share of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
One major difference between Johnson’s and Congress’s plans was Johnson’s willingness to quickly pardon these groups.
Who were former Confederate leaders and wealthy landowners?
This bill, vetoed by Johnson, would have given African Americans equal protection under the law before the 14th Amendment.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This tactic was used in the South to limit African American voting despite the 15th Amendment.
What were literacy tests, poll taxes, or grandfather clauses?
This compromise ended Reconstruction in 1877.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Term for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and Republican policies.
What were scalawags?
Famous abolitionist and women’s rights activist who fought for voting rights but was disappointed that women weren’t included in the 15th Amendment.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Congress’s Reconstruction Acts divided the South into this many military districts.
What are five?
Laws that segregated public facilities after Reconstruction.
What were Jim Crow laws?
The last federal troops left the South under this president.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?