Reconstruction 1
Grant was fined this amount for speeding in Washington DC.
What is $20?
Lincoln's vice-president who took over after the assassination.
Andrew Johnson
What is the bringing of formal charges against a public official called
What is Impeachment
What term defines the enforcement of separating races
Segregation
In the South, what was the name of the charge/fee that had to be paid to be allowed to vote?
Poll Tax
What was the name given to a laborer who worked the land for the farmer who owned it, in exchange for a share of the CROPS?
Sharecropper
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Who LOST the election of 1876 to Hayes in one of the closest elections in American history, even though he won the popular vote?
This started as a Confederate social club and later became a violent terrorist organization whose purpose was to deny African Americans their constitutional rights.
Klu Klux Klan
What was the point of the poll tax and the literacy test?
To prevent African Americans from voting.
What year was the 13th amendment ratified by the States?
1865
What laws were passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War that restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people?
Black Codes
Which Amendment to the United States Constitution made slavery illegal?
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
What was a scalawag?
Major requirement for Confederate States to be re-admitted according to the Wade-Davis bill.
What is that 50 percent of a state's white male citizens take a loyalty oath to the United States?
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction.
What was a "carpetbagger"?
Two of the three states whose electoral votes were disputed and when added to Hayes won him the election for president.
Its purpose was to establish schools, provide jobs, healthcare, food, clothing, and legal assistance to newly freed slaves in the South.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Name one leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress.
(Thaddeus) Stevens or (Charles) Sumner
DAILY DOUBLE!!
What does the 15th Amendment guarantee? (be specific)
This amendment declared anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
What was the 14th Amendment?
How many military districts in the South were established with the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
5
Johnson was impeached primarily for violating the Tenure of Office Act which prevented a president from doing what?
What is removing a cabinet officer without the Senate's approval?
In 1876, Rutherford B Hayes won the presidency. He secured the victory by promising to end what?
Reconstruction in the South
Who made up the majority of Southern Republican voters in 1872?
Freedmen
At the end of the Civil War Union General William T. Sherman's Field Order #15 gave free black families these two things--name one.
40 acres and a mule