General
The period in US history following the Civil War
Reconstruction
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th
Literacy tests for voting were discriminatory because
Freedmen couldn't read
First president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
Government agency formed to help former slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
Congress disliked Andrew Johnson because
He was lenient on the South
Amendment that gave citizenship rights to African Americans
14th
Jim Crow Laws
Murdered Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The president can do this to block a law
Veto
Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of segregation with "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
15th
The goal of the KKK
Use fear/violence to keep African Americans from voting
President that ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
Congress needs this percentage of votes pass a law even if the president tries to block it
2/3
Major issue the federal government had to figure out following the Civil War
The group of Congressmen who disliked Johnson and wanted to punish the South
Radical Republicans
Replaced slavery by keeping workers in a cycle of debt
Sharecropping
The Compromise of 1877 was when
Republicans get the president as long as troops are removed from the South / Democrats promise to honor African American rights
Part of Congress that can impeach the president
House of Representatives
Whites could avoid literacy tests because of
Grandfather clauses
Law placing the South under military rule
Reconstruction Act
Laws passed by Southern states to keep African Americans from voting and owning property
Black Codes
Elected in 1868 and 1872 after becoming a war hero in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
Part of Congress that can remove the president after they are impeached and tried
Senate