People
The 16th President, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
Required 51% of voters to swear an oath to the Union.
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
blocked Blacks and poor Whites from voting if they failed questions about the Constitution and government
Literacy tests
What state laws enforced segregation in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
A former military general, this two-term President found his administration to be full of scandal.
Ulysses S. Grant
The Tenure of Office Act said the President could not remove a member of his cabinet without the approval of the Senate.
True or False?
True
Andrew Johnson's plan that went easy on the South and did not support Black rights
Restoration, or Presidential Reconstruction
A Southerner who supported Republican ideas for Reconstruction who was generally labeled a traitor by other Southerners
scalwag
This agency helped freed blacks find housing, food, employment and education.
Freedmen's Bureau
Who assassinated President Lincoln on April 14, 1865?
John Wilkes Booth
This amendment guaranteed voting rights to all male citizens.
15th Amendment
Divided the South into 5 military districts.
Radical Reconstruction
This terrorist group formed in 1865 to harass and prevent freedmen from voting.
Ku Klux Klan
A Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
Carpetbagger
He became President upon Lincoln's assassination and his "Restoration" plan for Reconstruction was very easy on the South.l
Andrew Johnson
After the Civil War, the South enacted _______ _________ to control Black movement and keep freedmen as close to slavery as possible.
Black Codes
Abraham Lincoln's Plan
10% Plan
a fee you had to pay for voting
poll tax
When a landowner gives land, seeds and tools to a farmer in exchange for a share of their crop.
Sharecropping
Who was the first African American Senator?
Hiram Revels
This amendment said anyone born in the United States was a citizen. (Except Native Americans).
14th Amendment
Which plan said that states had to ratify the 14th Amendment?
Radical Reconstruction
allowed poor whites to vote even if they failed the literacy test by stating if your father/grandfather could vote, so could you.
Grandfather Clause
What Supreme Court Case upheld segregation as long as facilities were "separate but equal?"
Plessy v. Ferguson