Rando!
During Reconstruction immigrants poured into what region of the United State?
The North
Grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. And protects the citizens with due process of law and equal protection of the law.
A nickname that was given to Northerners that headed South to help poor southerns.
"carpetbaggers"
Who was the president after Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Laws that permitted segregation throughout the United States.
Jim Crow Law
This president was committed to pulling federal troops out of the south towards the end of reconstruction.
What is Amendment 13?
Abolish slavery.
Organization the headed south to provide clothing, education to people in the South.
Freedman's Bureau
What would "Seward's folly" or mistake be in reference to?
William Seward was in charge of purchasing Alaska from Russia.
A fee that was placed on voting rights.
Poll Tax
This person was kicked off a train for being in the "white" section of the train.
Homer Plessy
What is the 15th amendment?
Privides white and black men the right to vote. (21 and over)
A group of people that wrote laws to try and give civil rights to black people.
Radical Republicans
Leader of the Radical Republicans?
Thaddeus Stevens
Black Codes
After General's Sherman's march to the see, what did he propose as a way to get southern blacks a fresh start?
Give them, "40 acres and a mule"
What is the 10th Amendment?
Powers not given to the federal government is reserved for each particular state.
Hate group that spread violence towards black people during reconstruction.
Ku Klux Klan
Who was the first black person to serve a full term as a senator?
Blanche Bruce
A system of providing land, tools, and planting seeds...but crops created need to be partially given to owner.
Sharecropping
What political party was Johnson affiliated with, and what was unique about his loyalties during the Civil War?
Andrew Johnson was a Democrat, and he was a southern that stayed with the union.
What was the unfortunate wording in the 13 amendment.
Abolish slavery, UNLESS BEING USED AS A PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME.
What bill did President Andrew Johnson veto?
The Civil Rights Act
What major decision did Edmund Ross have to make during a critical trial?
He voted "not guilty" in president Johnson's impeachement trials.
This Justice was extremley angry about the verdict in the Plessy vs. Ferguson SUpreme court case.
Justice John Harlan