A new class of nearly four million men and women who had been slaves.
What is freedmen
100
Southern Legislatures passed these laws that severely limited the rights of Freedmen.
What are Black Codes
100
A term that southerners used to describe Southern Republicans who supported the new Republican government.
What is a Scalawag
100
A fee that voters had to pay in order to vote.
What is The Poll Tax
100
To bring formal charges against a president.
What is Impeach
200
Rebuilding of the South
What is Reconstruction
200
This group of people had two main goals...1. They wanted to break the power of wealthy planters who had long ruled the South. 2. They wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote.
What are the Radical Republicans
200
A Northerner who came to the South after the war.
What is a Carpetbagger
200
Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution.
What is the Literacy Test
200
President who ended Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
300
As early of 1863, Lincoln outlined this for Reconstruction. Under this plan, a southern state could form a new government after a certain percentage of it voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.
What is the "Ten Percent Plan"
300
This defined citizens as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States", but it did not apply to Native Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment
300
This group of people resented the changes imposed by Congress and enforced by the military. They wanted the South to change as little as possible; however, they were willing to let African Americans vote and hold offices, but they believed that real power belonged in the hands of white.
What is a Conservative
300
Laws that stated that if a voter's father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, the voter did not have to take a test
What is the Grandfather Clause
300
Restored the right to vote to nearly all white southerners.
What is The Amnesty Act of 1872
400
A government agency to help former slaves by giving them food, clothing, and medical care. In some cases they even helped former slaves find jobs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
400
Passed in 1867, this threw out state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment - all the former Confederate states except Tennessee. The act also divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act
400
The most dangerous of secret societies that white southerners formed to help them regain power.
What is The Ku Klux Klan
400
Laws that separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries.
What are The Jim Crow Laws
400
A famed abolitionist
Who is Frederick Douglas
500
This banned slavery throughout the nation.
What is the 13th Amendment
500
Ratified in 1870, this forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment
500
People who rented and farmed a plot of land.
What is a Sharecropper
500
A term used by Atlanta journalist Henry Grady to describe how southern leaders worked to expand the economy in the south by using its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North.
What is "The New South"
500
An 1896 lawsuit that challenged segregation. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as facilities were black and whites were equal.