vocab
an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.
What is a pocket veto
a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters.
What is the Lincoln 10% plan?
No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which Negro men are placed.
What is the nurse's law?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th amendment?
The 17th president of the United States (1865–69), who took office upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson?
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is a carpetbagger
This required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant where white and colored people are served in the same room.
What is the restaurant law?
laws governing the conduct of African Americans
What are black codes?
The 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
What is a scalawag
a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
What is Johnson's plan?
Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of white and colored races.
What is the education law?
An African American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work.
What is a debt peonage
This plan offered all kinds of new opportunities to African-American people, including males to vote, property ownership, education, legal rights, and even the possibility of holding political office.
What are Radical Republicans?
No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.
What is the barbers law?
a violent conflict between a state and one or more organized non-state actors in the state's territory
What is the Civil War?
An American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare during the reconstruction era.
Who is William T. Sherman?
What is a sharecropper
This plan placed 10 Confederate states under military control, grouping them into five military districts that would serve as the acting government for the region.
What is the Initial Congressional Plan?
The library is required to maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come in to read books or periodicals.
What is the library law?
A violent post-Civil War secret society founded in Tennessee in 1866 to upend the Black political and social power that was being established during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A historical figure who led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War, then elected the 18th President of the United States to help the congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?