Vocabulary
This is the separation of people based on a characteristic such as race.
What is segregation?
This was the problem many people had with Abraham Lincoln's reconstruction plan.
What it being too easy on the south?
This was the action taken by republicans who were upset with Andrew Johnson.
What is impeachment?
This man won the election for president in 1876.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This law guarantees that the right to vote will not be denied based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is an organization that terrorized minorities in the post Civil War era.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Abraham Lincoln called for this percentage of voters to swear loyalty to the Union for their state to be readmitted.
What is 10%?
This was the organization that was established to try and help the Freedmen find education, housing, and jobs.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This was the name given to the deal to secure the nomination for president in 1876.
What was the Corrupt Bargain? (Compromise of 1877)
This law outlawed slavery in the US except as a form of punishment.
What is the 13th amendment?
These laws attempted to create divides in society and keep black people as second class citizens.
What are Black Codes?
Securing the rights of Freedmen and limiting the power of white supremacists was the goal of reconstruction for this group.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This is what Andrew Johnson did for many confederates that angered northerners.
What is pardon them?
This was what General Grant did after the Civil War.
What is become president?
This law created cheap land in the west that was available to anyone who could move to the land and tend to it for at least one year.
What is the Homestead Act?
These people came to the south in the reconstruction era to take advantage economically.
Who are carpetbaggers?
Andrew Johnson was a politician from this state, meaning that he was more sympathetic to the South and more lenient towards them.
What is Tennessee?
This was the name of the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This is the name given to the main economic system created in the Reconstruction south.
What is sharecropping?
The reconstruction Act divided the south into this.
What are 5 military districts?
These shows would feature black caricatures played by white actors, and is where the name Jim Crow comes from.
What are minstrel shows?
This was the name of the bill proposed that would require 50% of southern voters to take an oath of allegiance, bar former confederates from elected office, and was ultimately vetoed by Lincoln in 1864.
What is the Wade-Davis bill?
This man was the first black Governor in America.
Who was P.B.S. Pinchback?
This was the name given to former slaves who moved west.
Who are the exodusters?
This decision upheld segregation in the south under the concept of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?