Fight for Equality
The Freedmen’s Bureau
offered considerable assistance to poor whites
President Johnson was...
Impeached, convicted, and removed from office.
During Reconstruction all adult male former slaves were given the constitutional right to_____ and ______ ________
vote and hold office
Redeemers
Dominated in control of the South
&
Eliminated or reduced public support for education
15th amendment
right to vote for everyone born in the US
For southern blacks after the Civil War freedom meant
Acquiring rights to enable them to live as free as whites
Andrew Johnson was..
a southern Democrat
The black codes helped President Johnson's plan for reconstruction
false
"Scalawags”
Southern white republicans
14th amendment
all people born in the US will receive their natural born rights
the Fourteenth Amendment(1866)
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached in 1868
He upset Radical Republicans who saw him as an impediment to their reconstruction plans.
Advocates of the “New South”..
Opposed using Northern Capital
"carpetbaggers"
Were northerners who moved south.
Were primarily white.
Included union army veterans.
The Tenure of Office Act
designed to limit President Johnson’s authority
The Black Codes were..
passed into law by congress
Lincoln’s 10 percent plan referred to
How many whites needed to take loyalty oaths.
The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South….
True
Klu Klux Klan
Notorious hate group that was opposed to African Americans recieving equal rights
The Black Codes
intended to restrict African Americans' freedoms and rights
Compared economically to white southerners at the end of the Civil War, southern blacks were..
worse off
Ulysses S. Grant
entered the white house with no political experience
Southern “Redeemers” after 1877
Dominated in control of the South
&
Eliminated or reduced public support for education
“Liberal Republicans”
opposed the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant
13th amendment
abolished slavery