Key People
He became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Lincoln’s plan required this percentage of voters in a Southern state to take a loyalty oath.
What is 10%
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in April 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The organization formed to terrorize African Americans and stop them from voting.
What is the KKK?
This group of Northern politicians moved South after the war and were accused of taking advantage of the situation.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
The Radical Republicans wanted to make this group citizens with equal rights.
Who are formerly enslaved people (Freedmen)?
This amendment gave citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This set of state laws limited the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This organization helped newly freed people find jobs, schools, and food.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This Union general later became president and worked to enforce Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Johnson’s plan offered pardons to Southerners who did this.
What is swore loyalty to the Union?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This deal ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this.
Who are Scalawags?
He led the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Congress passed this bill to give assistance and support to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau Act?
The 14th Amendment also promised this basic legal protection to all citizens.
What is equal protection under the law?
Andrew Johnson got caught violating the Tenure of Office act, which caused his
What is impeachment?
This system kept many African Americans tied to the land in poverty.
What is sharecropping or tenant farming?
This man became president during the election of 1876, but only because of the compromise of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
This plan divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
These were created to prevent African americans from voting
What are poll taxes or literacy tests?
This major economic depression began in 1873 and caused banks to fail and businesses to close, weakening support for Reconstruction.
What is the Panic of 1873?
Southern Democrats used this term to describe their return to power after Reconstruction.
What are redeemers?