People
This person became president after Lincoln was assassinated - opposed equal rights for African Americans - required Southerners to swear loyalty to the Union.
Andrew Johnson
This term refers to the time period of rebuilding the south and readmitting former confederate states back into the Union
Reconstruction
This group used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women.
Ku Klux Klan
Ten Percent Plan
This amendment stated that the state and federal government could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen - regardless of race.
15th Amendment
This person assassinated President Lincoln in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
This term means to grant a pardon/forgiveness to people who committed a crime; protection from prosecution.
Amnesty
A system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner and receives a share of the crop.
sharecropping
A provision allowing people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before reconstruction began.
Grandfather Clause
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people.
14th Amendment
This president came after Andrew Johnson and was seen as a great war hero.
Ulysses S. Grant
A name given by former confederates to southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction in the South.
scalawags
What two ways did the south limit African Americans right to vote?
1. Poll tax
2. Literacy Test
This law gave the federal government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African Americans' rights. It also granted citizenship to African Americans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This group was created to help African Americans adjust to life after slavery - it would provide food, clothes, and medical care to these people.
Freedmen's Bureau
The final president during the Reconstruction time period - he won the presidency by only one electoral vote.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Black codes
This court case established the idea of "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
President Johnson violated this act which led to his impeachment - this law stated that the president could not remove government officials without the Senate's approval.
Tenure of Office Act.
Exodusters
This man became the first African American to be elected to the US Senate.
Hiram Revels
These groups held state and local conventions to protest discrimination and demand equality
Equal Rights Leagues
This company controlled nearly all of the tobacco manufacturing in the country
The American Tobacco Company
1. A majority of a states whites adults had to pledge loyalty to the Union.
2. only white males who swore they had not fought against the Union could vote for delegates.
3. all new states constitutions had to ban slavery.
Wade-Davis Bill
This Atlanta newspaper editor headed a group that urged Southerners to build a "new south"
Henry Grady