Significant People
Who was the President that proposed a lenient Reconstruction plan for the South?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What Amendment abolished Slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What term refers to laws enforcing racial segregation in the south?
What are Jim Crow laws?
What system allowed Freedmen to work land in exchange for a share of the crops?
What is sharecropping?
What is a state leaving the Union?
Which President was impeached during the Reconstruction era?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Which Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment?
What Supreme Court case upheld segregation as "separate but equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
What term describes the economic system that kept many freedmen in debt to landowners?
What is debt peonage?
What battle plan the North used to create a blockade of the South?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Who become the 1st African American elected to Congress?
Who is Hiram Revels?
What amendment protects the right to vote regardless of race?
What is the 15th Amendment?
What did the "Grandfather Clause" and literacy tests prevent African American's from doing?
What is voting?
What government agency was created to help freedmen adjust to normal life in the South?
What is the Freedmen Bureau?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What term refers to Northerners who moved to the south to take advantage of the Reconstruction?
What are carpetbaggers?
What was a common restriction placed on Freedmen to limit their rights during Reconstruction?
What are Black Codes?
What was one effect of the Jim Crow laws on African American life?
What significant economic change occurred in the South during Reconstruction?
What is the diversification of crops?
What speech let the world know that the civil war was a moral battle larger than states' rights?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and were other called traitors?
What are scalawags?
What Legislation was passed to enforce the civil rights for African Americans?
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
How did the Southern states respond after Northern troops were withdrawn in 1877?
What do historians refer to as the low point in race relations following Reconstruction?
What is the Nadir?
Where did General Lee surrender to Grant, officially ending the war?