Early Reconstruction
This President's "10 Percent" plan was easy on the South to try to reunite the country as quick as possible.
Who is Lincoln?
The time period was known as "Radical" Reconstruction because of this group of people who were in charge of the government due to their majority.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This was the most dangerous of the hate groups that emerged in the South during the Reconstruction Era.
Who is the KKK?
This was the first American president to be assassinated.
Who is Lincoln?
This group of politicians rejected Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
Who are the Republicans?
This amendment granted equal protection under the laws.
What is the 14th amendment?
This group dominated Southern politics before the Civil War.
Who are wealthy planters or rich plantation owners?
This president was saved by his speech that was located in his pocket where the bullet struck him.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This area of the country had 800,000 returning soldiers and a lack of jobs/opportunities
What is the North?
This person won the presidency because African Americans gained the right to vote in the South and voted for him.
Who was Grant?
This was an opportunity in the South for freedmen and poor whites to be able to rent a plot of land and share their harvest with the landowner.
What is sharecropping?
This is the area that it is believed a "second gunman" may have shot Kennedy.
What is the grassy knoll?
This organization set up schools and provided food and clothes for newly freed Black Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These laws or "codes" prevented African Americans from owning a gun or serving on juries.
What are the "black codes"?
This man challenged segregation in the South by sitting in the "whites only" section of the train car.
Who is Homer Plessy?
This person came to Teddy Roosevelt's assassin in a dream and told him to assassinate him.
Who is William McKinley?
This Reconstruction Bill was created by Congress but vetoed by Lincoln before it could go into effect.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
The Fifteenth amendment forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of “race, color, or this previous condition...
What is servitude or slavery?
This was the agreement to allow Rutherford B. Hayes to become the president as long as he ended Military Reconstruction in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Reagan was shot after John Hinckley became obsessed with an actress from this movie.
What is Taxi Driver?