People
Assassinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Demanded that 10% of southern whites swear an oath
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
Segregation laws were known by this name
Jim Crow
Clause created to protect white voters in the south and restrict African Americans from voting
Grandfather Clause
Following the Civil War, the South was divided into how many military districts?
5
Vice President of Lincoln who became President after Lincoln was killed
Andrew Johnson
Demanded that more than 50% of southern whites swear an oath
Wade-Davis Bill
What was a special tax Southerners (specifically African Americans) had to pay before they could vote?
Poll Tax
Process used by the legislative body to bring formal charges of wrongdoing against a public official
Impeachment
Gave African Americans (males only) the right to vote
15th Amendment
A secret society that opposed Civil Rights for African Americans was called what?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What were white Southern Republicans called?
Scalawags
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans and were enforced in every Southern state
Black Codes
Emancipated were known as what?
Freedmen
Sharecroppers were generally stuck in a cycle of what?
Poverty
An African American who was arrested in 1896 for refusing to leave a whites-only Louisiana train car
Homer Plessy
Democrats who brought their party back to power in the South were called?
Redeemers
Which Supreme Court case made it legal for the southern states to segregate based on race as long as facilities were “separate but equal”?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Political party that was upset about the Black Codes and wanted African Americans to have the right to vote
Radical Republicans
The Democrats agreed to accept Hayes’ Presidential victory under what condition (as promised by the Compromise of 1877)?
All remaining federal troops would be removed from the South
The first African American elected to the US Senate
Hiram Revels
Northern-born Republicans who moved South after the war and held office were called?
Carpetbaggers
How did The Freedmen’s Bureau help African Americans? (Name at least 2 out of the 3 ways)
Find Jobs
Provided Food and Clothing
Provided Medical Care
This Amendment officially ended slavery
13th
What was the Panic of 1873?
Unemployment in the North raised to 14% after the stock market crashed