Reconstruction 1
The Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Southern white republicans who supported reconstruction were called?
What is a Scalawag
the bringing of formal charges against a public official is called
What is Impeachment
Define: Segregation
enforced separation of races
This political party dominated the South immediately after the civil war
what is the Democratic Party?
laborers who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop is called.
What was a Sharecropper/ Sharecropping?
Which Amendment prevented voting discrimination based on race?
What is the 15th Amendment?
This started as a Confederate social club and later became a violent terrorist organization whose purpose was to deny African Americans their constitutional rights.
What is the Klu Klux Klan
This was put in place to stop African Americans from voting.
What was the point of the poll tax and the literacy test?
Both a Union General and President of the United States After Andrew Johnson
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Southern states created these laws in resonse to the efforts of radical republicans to get as close to the conditions of slavery as possible.
what is segregation, Black Codes or Jim Crow laws?
This was a joint comitte to address the problems of reconstruction and stood for rights for African Americans and a strict reconstruction plan
Who are the Radical Republicans?
What was the 15th amendment?
It allowed African Americans to vote
The first African Ameircan to serve in the United States Congresss
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords Theatre (Daily Double)
This amendment defined Citizenship as anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. and provided equal protection under the law
What is the 14th amendment?
This government program sought to provide housing, jobs, and education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Who took over for President Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
shot Abraham Lincoln, and what happened to him?
John Wilkes Booth and he was captured and killed
THis ended reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Reconstruction Act of 1867 created this in the south.
What is military districts?
Why did sharecropping lead to a cycle of poverty?
the sharecroppers often owed more than they had earned and had no choice but to offer the landlord a greater percentage of next years crop
Who won the election of 1876, and how?
Rutherford B Hayes, because he agreed to end reconstruction
this plan was proposed by President Lincoln and asked stats to do what?
What is the 10% plan and asked 10% of state to take a loyalty oath?
This clause stated if your father or grandfather voted, you did not have to take the literacy test or pay the poll tax.
What is the grandfather clause?