Political Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson belonged to this political party
What is Democratic?
This is farming someone else's land and getting to keep and sell a share of the crops you farm.
What is sharecropping?
The South lost roughly this many men in the war
What is 1/5 of war ages population/ 260,000 men?
This is the President's power to reject a bill passed by coongress
What is veto?
These laws were the beginning of ‘Separate but equal laws’, that limited the rights of African Americans.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
President Johnson did this to the Freedman’s Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act of 1866
What is veto?
This is renting land, keeping all the profit from the crops you grow
What is tenant farming?
This percent of freedmen over the age of 20 were illiterate
What is 80%?
This is a term used when Congress tries to remove a president from office
What is impeach?
This man's plan stated that when 10% of a state’s voters pledge a loyalty oath, state can be readmitted to the Union
Who is Lincoln?
These restricted African Americans' lives. They could not carry firearms, serve on jury, marrying whites, travel without permits.
What are Black Codes?
Many African Americans began to move here to find better job opportunity
What are cities?
The people that believed in this held on to the views of the Confederacy and life in the South before the war.
What is the "Lost Cause"?
These were white southerners who tried to join the republican party to gain power for themselves.
What are scalawags?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
What is the 14th amendment?
This act gave the federal government the power to punish whites who discriminated against African Americans
What is the Enforcement Act?
These were programs aimed to help rebuild the South through building roads and infastructure.
What are public works?
This started as a 'social club' for confederate veterans
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This word is used for the inability to read or write
What is illiterate?
This organization helped former slaves, poor whites, and native american affected by war. Give them food, reunite them with family, educate them
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This act made it possible for former confederates to serve on Congress
What is the Amnesty Act
Too many people took out large loans that they could not repay, causing banks and businesses to fail, which caused this
What is a depression?
This was the main goal of the KKK
What is to restrore white supremacy?
This is the belief that whites are the superior race
What is white supremacy?
Majority within the state must take oath of loyalty to be readmitted. State must formally abolish slavery. No confederate officials in the new state government. This plan for reconstruction belonged to
Who are the Radical Republicans?