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He drew up the "10 percent plan" for Reconstruction.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
Term for the process of readmitting Southern states to the Union, and rebuilding the region after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Fraction of senators that must vote for the removal of a President from office.
What is 2/3rds?
Laws used by Southern whites to limit the freedoms of rights of former slaves.
What are the Black Codes?
Organization which used threats and violence to keep blacks away from the polls.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
He tried to carry out Lincoln's plan for readmitting the Southern states to the Union.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Southern whites who gained political office during Reconstruction.
Number of the amendment which gave citizenship to blacks.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Law violated by President Andrew Johnson which led to his impeachment.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
It was outlawed by the 13th Amendment.
What is slavery?
Group of Congressmen which included Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens.
Who are Radical Republicans?
What is impeach?
Number of the amendment which gave all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Law passed in 1866 to guarantee various legal rights to blacks.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
House of Congress that impeached President Andrew Johnson.
What is the House of Representatives?
President who supported Congress' tough Reconstructions polocies.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
It was used by Southern whites to deny the right to vote to blacks and their descendents.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Fraction of the Senate and House needed to approve new amendments.
What is 2/3rds?
Laws which divided ten former Confederate states into five military districts.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
Northerners who went south after the Civil War looking for political and economic opportunities.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Reconstruction ended when he withdrew the last federal troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
Monies which blacks were required to pay before they could vote.
What are poll taxes?
Fraction of states required to approve new amendments.
What is 3/4ths?
Laws that kept the races apart in housing, transportation, and schools.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
What is the Republican Party?