Legislation
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This organization provided food, schools, and legal help to freedmen.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This term describes the separation of people in public places based on race.
What is segregation?
This election had two disputed sets of electoral votes and led to a political compromise.
This word means to formally charge a public official with misconduct.
What is impeachment?
This amendment gave all male citizens in the United States the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This secretive group used terror to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This plan allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union once 10% of voters took a loyalty oath.
What is Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan?
This deal ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was a farming system where freedmen worked on a farm in exchange for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
These restrictive laws limited African Americans' freedom and tried to keep them in slave-like condition.
What are Black Codes?
This president's reputation was damaged by the corruption and scandals that took place during his presidency, despite his positive intentions.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These are what President Johnson gave former Confederate soldiers and politicans to forgive them of their offenses.
What are pardons?
These laws enforced racial segregation and became common after federal troops left the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Name one method Southern states used to keep African Americans from voting.
What is (pick one) literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause, property test?
This 1872 law pardoned many ex-Confederates and restored their right to vote and hold office.
What is the Amnesty Act of 1872?
This president's lenient plan for Reconstruction led to conflict with Congress and his near-removal from office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was Congress's Reconstruction Plan that required a majority of white males to swear loyalty and guaranteed equality for all.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill (or Radical Republican Plan)?
What is a veto?
What are the Enforcement Acts (1870-1871)?
This term describes Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
This was the official reason Congress gave for President Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
What is attempting to fire a cabinet member without approval?
What is one lasting achievement of Reconstruction?
Possible answers: 14th Amendment's equal protection and citizenship clauses, 15th Amendment voting rights, expansion of public education, etc.
What are carpetbaggers?