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process of readmitting the former confederate states to ther Union and to rebuild the South
What is reconstruction?
100
laws that greatly limited the freedom for African Americans
What are Black Codes?
100
allowed former confederates, except those who held high ranks, to serve in public office
What is the General Amnesty Act of 1872?
100
President Johnson's administration went about setting up new southern governments by doing this:
allowing elections of state and federal representatives
100
the group that criticized the 15th amendment
women
200
land owners provided the land, tools, and supplies and the farmer provided the labor
What is sharecropping?
200
laws that enforced segregation
What are Jim Crow Laws?
200
provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
southern governments passed the Black Codes for this reason:
limit civil rights of freed African Americans
200
why did the House of Representatives want to impeach President Johnson?
he fired a cabinet official without senate approval
300
legalized segregation as long as "separate-but-equal" facilities were provided
What is Plessy Vs. Ferguson?
300
the forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
What is segregation?
300
northern-born Republicans who had moved to the South after the war
What are carpetbaggers?
300
What impact did the Freedmen's Bureau have on freed slaves' education?
it increased the number of schools and increased efforts to educate freed slaves
300
first African American to hold office as a US senator
Who is Hiram Revels?
400
made slavery illegal throughout the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
special tax people had to pay before they could vote
What is poll tax?
400
process used by the legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
What is impeachment?
400
the difference between the Wade-Davis Bill and Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
Wade-Davis required a majority of southern males to take an oath of loyalty
400
Reason behind the creation of the Ku Klux Klan
expansion of suffrage rights to include African Americans
500
agency established by congress that provided relief for poor southerners
What is Freedman's Bureau?
500
Democrats who brought their party back to power in the South
What are the Redeemers?
500
gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
the main goal of Reconstruction was to ____________
rebuild the south and readmit the former confederate states into the union
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direct effect of the Coompromise of 1877
removal of federal troops from the south
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