Amendments
What is the 13th amendment?
This celebrated former Union general ran and won against Seymour in the 1868 presidential election.
Who is Grant?
This bill was in favor of making 50% of the 1860 voter population to swear allegiance to the US.
What is the Wade Davis Bill of 1864?
This group, led by Thaddeus Stevens, wanted to disband Southern state governments, establish 5 military districts.
This is the process of bringing a person in public office up n charges; may or may not result in removal from office.
What is impeachment?
This is one of three Reconstruction Amendments that affirmed that the right to vote may not be denied on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This contender ran against Grant in the 1872 presidential election.
Who is Horace Greeley?
These States vote tallies were not included in the 1876 election between Tilden and Hayes: leading to Southern outrage.
What is Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida?
What is the Reconstruction Act?
What is the House?
This is one of three Reconstruction Amendments guarantees equal protection under the law to all citizens, establishing African Americans equal citizens of the US; rights of due process to all.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This Democrat Contender ran against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1876 Presidential election, resulting in the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
The Compromise of 1877 allowed Hayes to be the legitimate winner of the 1876 election, as long as this group left the South.
Who is the United States Army/Federal Troops?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Two-thirds of this chamber of government must vote in favor in order to impeach.
What is the Senate?
The period after the Civil War in the South, when the US government enacted policies to bring Southern states back into the full political participation of the Union, and guaranteed rights to former slaves was known as this.
Reconstruction
Who is Lincoln?
This law stated that Citizens had to pay a tax to vote; often keeping former slaves from voting in the South
This group came from the North after the Civil War to the South to profit off of Reconstruction; to exploit the situation for financial gain
What is a Carpetbagger?
This group in the South terrorized African Americans during reconstruction and beyond, hoping to maintain white supremacy in government and communities.
What is the KKK?
The fourteenth Amendment, granting equal protection under the law to all citizens, did not apply to which ethnic group?
Native Americans
This politician was Abraham Lincoln's vice president, he was a Democrat from Tennessee; his plan for reconstruction was to allow ex-Confederate leaders to vote and hold office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Due to their lack of formal schooling, this law often prevented former slaves from voting in the South by requiring them to pass this type of test.
What is a literacy test?
This was a Southerner who was seen by other Southerners as a "traitor" to the Confederate cause; by going into business dealings with Northerners
What is a Scallawag?
These were set up in the South to restrict blacks from their freedoms and rights.
What is black codes?