The War Ends
The war ended at this court house in Virginia.
Appomattox Court House
Congressional Republicans known for their extreme views regarding ex-Confederates, Reconstruction, and re-admitting southern states back into the Union.
Radical Republicans
The federal government established this program in order to aid newly freed African-American slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
The 18th president of the United States.
U.S. Grant
Southerners who sought to redeem southern state governments.
Redeemers
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at this DC theater.
Ford's Theater
Lincoln's plan for reunion after the Civil War.
The Ten Percent Plan
Most newly freed slaves engaged in this form of labor upon citizenship.
sharecropping
A tax that one has to pay before voting. Because many African Americans could not afford to pay the tax, they could not vote.
poll tax
Republican candidate for president in 1876.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Wade-Davis Bill
A group of laws passed in the former Confederate states right after the Civil War.
Black codes
A domestic terrorist organization designed to intimidate black citizens in the south.
Ku Klux Klan
Democrate candidate for president in 1876.
Samuel J. Tilden
The 17th president of the United States.
Andrew Johnson
The amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery completely throughout the United States.
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
The first of several Reconstruction Acts passed by the Radical Republicans, who made up a majority in Congress. This law divided the former Confederate states into five military districts. It explained the process they had to go through to form new state governments and to adapt state constitutions to include the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Military Reconstruction Act
Agreement that resolved the election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction.
The period in United States history right after the Civil War. During this period the South was readmitted to the United States and laws were passed to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans.
Reconstruction
A term that refers to one who seeks to be less extreme in matters such as politics.
moderate
A northerner who came down to the south in order to profit from Reconstruction.
carpetbagger
The constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to black Americans.
14th Amendment
This law allowed many former Confederates to run for public office.
Amnesty Act