The effort taking place between 1865 and 1877 to restore the Southern states to the Union
What is Reconstruction?
100
Abraham Lincoln’s vice president
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
These laws restricted the rights of the freed slaves after emancipation
What are Black Codes?
100
This was declared illegal by the 13th Amendment
What is slavery?
100
This organization began as a social club in Tennessee but quickly evolved into a terrorist group
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
This is the term for charging a president (or another public official) with a crime while that official is in office
What is impeachment?
200
Who won the presidential election of 1866?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
These laws were passed in the 1880s in many states governed by Democrats enforcing segregation between whites and African-Americans
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
200
This law was passed by Congress to allow military rule of the Southern states
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
200
This office was created by the federal government to aid former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This is the term for the official forgiveness of a crime, given to many Confederates during Reconstruction
What is a "pardon"?
300
This Confederate assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes-Booth?
300
This was Lincoln’s strategy for restoring the Union that included an offer of pardon to any Southerner who pledged allegiance to the Union
What is the Ten-Percent Plan?
300
This right was upheld by the Fifteenth Amendment?
What is the right of all males to vote?
300
This was the negative term for Northern Republicans who moved to the postwar South to make profit from the destruction
What are carpetbaggers?
400
This was a system of farming in which a family worked land for the owner and in turn received a portion of the harvest when it came time
What is sharecropping?
400
This was the first black senator?
Who is Hiram Revels?
400
This was the result of President Johnson firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton after he disagreed with Congress's recent passing of the Tenure of Office Act
What is Johnson's impeachment?
400
The Fourteenth Amendment upholds this group of laws that were previously passed by Congress
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
400
This was the negative term for white Southern Republicans
What were scalawags?
500
This was a special fee paid to vote, intended to keep many poor freedmen from voting
What is a poll tax?
500
He was the former Confederate President
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
Plessy vs. Ferguson resulted in this doctrine policy
What is "separate but equal"?
500
This was Congress's strict plan for Reconstruction that punished the Confederates severely