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What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A secret society of people that used violence and fear to oppress African Americans
What happened to President Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War?
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
What is the name of the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union following the end of the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson?
vice president who became president upon Lincoln’s death
What was segregation?
the forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
the amendment stating all people born or naturalized in the United States, except Native Americans, were American citizens.
What was the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction?
Reconstruction Acts in 1867, or laws divided the South into five military districts with a military commander in control of each.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
the amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
the amendment that would make slavery illegal throughout the United States.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
an organization established by Congress to provide relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South
What were southern laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans?
Black Codes
What is a system in which farm laborers kept, or shared, some of the crop?
Sharecropping
What were Jim Crow Laws?
laws that enforced segregation
What was the act that gave African Americans the same legal rights as whites?
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Republicans who wanted more federal control in Reconstruction
What is the definition of Impeachment?
Impeachment is the process used by a legislative body (lawmakers) to bring charges against a public official.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
A Supreme Court in 1896 ruling that upheld segregation
What was a poll tax?
a special tax that African Americans had to pay before they could vote
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What happened to Andrew Johnson during his presdiency?
He was impeached by Congress and it weakened his presidency
What were the three parts of President Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?
Offered a pardon to southerners.
Southerners had to swear to the Union and agree that slavery was illegal.
New state governments could be formed once 10 percent of voters had made these pledges.
What was Andrew Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction?
Similar to the Ten Percent Plan, but he pardoned rich White Southerners and former Confederate government officials
Who was Hiram Revels?
The first African American senator
What was the most two important part of the Wade Davis Bill?
1. banned Slavery in the South
2. needed 50% of adult male voters in a southern state to take the loyalty oath
What were laws providing equal protection for all under the law?
Enforcement Acts