Vocabulary
Vice President who became President after Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union following the end of the Civil War
Reconstruction
What is the 13th Amendment? (Summarize in 3 words)
Made Slavery illegal
Explain President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan (what three parts did it have?)
1. grant amnesty
2. 10% plan
3. states had to recognize slavery was illegal
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
15th
forced Separation of whites and African Americans in public places
Segregation
Southern Laws that greatly limited freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
What industry was important to rebuilding the "New South"
Textile
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the US and granted equal protection of laws
Fourteenth Amendment
Which Amendment did Andrew Johnson oppose?
14th
An organization established by congress to provide relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
Freedmen's Bureau
A secret society that used violence to oppress African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
Which group wanted President Johnson's administration to take a much more active role in Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
required declaration that secession was illegal, states had to recognize slavery was illegal
These types of places were built by the Freedmen's Bureau to assist freed people and poor southerners after the Civil War
schools and colleges
system in which farm laborers kept or shared, some of their crop
sharecropper
The process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official
impeachment
When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated and who assassinated him?
April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth
These were two tactics used by southern governments to prevent African Americans from voting
poll taxes and literacy tests
These two events weakened northern support for Reconstruction due to economic downfalls
Panic of 1873 and the Whisky Ring Scandal
The first African American Senator
Hiram Revels
An agreement in which Democrats accepted Hayes's election to the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops from the South
Compromise of 1877
Why did the House of Representatives impeach President Johnson?
He fired his secretary of war
Opposition to the congressional elections in 1866 led voters to get involved in what?
riots
EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION
Who was the Democratic Nomination for the 1876 election that ran against Rutherford B. Hayes?
Samuel Tilden