People/Events
Vocabulary
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Miscellaneous
100
President Lincoln blocked the Wade-Davis Bill with this.
What is a Pocket Veto
100
To forgive or pardon an individual is to offer them this.
What is amnesty
100
Laws that severely limited African Americans' rights in the South and made life difficult by separating both races.
What are Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws
100
The group that used terror and intimidation to keep African Americans and white Republicans from voting.
What is the KKK
100
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment
200
The wave of fear that caused Americans to rush to banks to get their money.
What is the Panic of 1873
200
To bring charges of a crime against a government official.
What is Impeach
200
The Military Reconstruction Act divided the former confederacy into these.
What are Five Military Districts
200
The group that was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South and assisting in the creation of schools.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
200
This amendment granted citizenship to African Americans and all people born or naturalized in the U.S. (except Native Americans).
What is the 14th Amendment
300
The Republican candidate running for president in 1876 who wanted to end Radical (Military) Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
300
Sin taxes were taxes on these items.
What are Alcohol and Tobacco
300
Under the Wade-Davis Bill, Radicals said that these people would not be allowed the right to vote or hold office in their new state governments?
Who are Former Confederate Government Officials and Generals.
300
The two groups who wanted to modernize the South, promote education, and seek for economic opportunity.
Who are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
300
This amendment gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment
400
The leader of the Radical Republicans.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens
400
The nickname for the South as it changed to an industrial-based economy after the Civil War.
What is the New South
400
To receive a pardon under Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and accept the Union's proclamation concerning this key issue.
What is Slavery
400
One of the main goals of this group was for the federal government to help African Americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing their right to vote.
Who are the Radical Republicans
400
The name for the outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president after Congress approved the commission's finding in exchange for ending Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Who were the first African Americans elected to the U.S. Congress, and which house of Congress did each serve in, respectively?
Joseph Rainey- House of Representatives Hiram Revels- Senate
500
A system in which a landowner rents out plots of land to tenants, who farm and live on the land in exchange for a portion of their crops.
What is Sharecropping
500
Name one thing that the South had to do in order to be readmitted to the Union under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
People taking oath of loyalty will be pardoned, except for wealthy planter elite and former Confederate officials Ratify 13th Amendent Reject all war debts Draft new state constitution that is acceptable to Congress.
500
The group that Andrew Johnson blamed for the Civil War.
What is the Wealthy Planter Elite
500
This scandal involved government officials filing false tax reports, which embarrassed the Grant administration.
What is the Whiskey Ring
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