Presidents
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Bonus: Why? (100 points)
John Wilkes Booth
Bonus: He blamed Lincoln for the South losing the Civil War and he wanted to avenge the South
Reconstruction plan by Abraham Lincoln that granted amnesty and required 10% of voters to swear loyalty to reunite with the Union
Ten Percent Plan
freedmen
What does Reconstruction mean?
rebuild the South after the Civil War
President who pulled out Union troops from the South and ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
How did most white Southerners feel about Reconstruction?
They were upset and wanted to get rid of it
Laws passed in Southern states during Reconstruction that limited the rights of African Americans
Black Codes
Separating people of different races in public spaces
segregation
Government organization that aided former slaves and poor whites in the South with food, medical care, and education
Freedmen's Bureau
President whose administration was corrupt and made Republicans lose their influence
Ulysses S. Grant
What new jobs did African Americans take that they could not prior to Reconstruction in the South?
African Americans became elected officials such as sheriffs, mayors, and legislators
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
Bonus: White Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction were called (100 points)
carpetbaggers
Bonus: scalawags
Laws that segregated all public spaces in the South
Jim Crow Laws
What was the goal of the KKK?
To limit the rights of African Americans
The first president to be impeached (bring formal charges of wrongdoing against)
Andrew Johnson
What did the Supreme Court decide in Plessy v. Ferguson?
segregation is legal as long as "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites are provided
System of farming that kept African Americans and poor whites trapped in a cycle of debt
(Also known as a cycle of poverty)
Sharecropping
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South to
prevent African Americans from voting
What were the two main goals of Radical Republicans?
1. give African Americans the right to vote
2. break the power of the rich white planters
List the following Presidents in order: Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes
Secret deal that allowed a Republican to become President in exchange for ending Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction plan passed by Radical Republicans that divided the South into five military districts and required Southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment
Reconstruction Act (1867)
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments do?
13th: Banned slavery
14th: Citizenship for African Americans
15th: Voting rights for African American men
Name 1 success and 1 failure of Reconstruction
Successes: public education system, citizenship for African Americans
Failures: rights of African Americans restricted after Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation