Reconstruction 1
The Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Southern white republicans who supported reconstruction were called?
What is a Scalawag
What is the bringing of formal charges against a public official called
What is Impeachment
Define: Segregation
enforced separation of races
What political party dominated the South immediately after the civil war?
The Republican Party
What was a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop called?
What was a Sharecropper
What was the 14th amendment?
Anyone born in the United States is a citizen
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
What was the point of the poll tax and the literacy test?
To prevent African Americans to vote
What year was the 13th amendment approved by Congress?
1865
What did southern states create to oppress free African Americans?
The Black Codes or Jim Crow laws
Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans?
Thaddeus Stevens or Charles Sumner
What was the 15th amendment?
It allowed African American men to vote
Define: Black Codes
new laws used by southern states to control African Americans
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords Theatre
What was the 13th amendment?
Abolished slavery & forced labor
When was the Freedman's Bureau established, and what did they do?
1865, and set up schools in the south
Who took over for President Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Who shot Abraham Lincoln, and what happened to him?
John Wilkes Booth and he was captured and killed
Who won the election of 1876?
Rutherford B. Hayes
How many military districts in the South were established with the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
What is 5
Why did sharecropping lead to a cycle of poverty?
the sharecroppers often owed more than they had earned
Who won the election of 1876, and how?
Rutherford B Hayes, because he agreed to end reconstruction
Lincoln 10% plan called for
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?