This clause said that white voters whose grandfathers owned property were automatically eligible to vote
What is a grandfather clause?
100
New laws used by southern states to control African Americans
What is black codes?
100
16th president of the United States, ended the Civil War and began Reconstruction for the South
Who is Abe Lincoln?
100
Once ten percent of a state's voters swear an oath of loyalty to the United States, then they could organize a new state government
What is the 10% Plan?
100
A personal tax to be paid before voting?
What is poll tax?
200
Banned slavery and forced labor
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Person who rents a plot of land and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
What is a sharecropper?
200
A secret society whose members wear white hoods that hid their faces and white robes
Who is the KKK?
200
This plan removed the governments of all Southern states that refused to ratify the 14th amendment and imposed military rule
What is the Reconstruction Act?
200
The name of the person who is running jeopardy right now
Who is Ms. Socolow?
300
All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
300
Name given to northern whites who went south to start businesses or to pursue political careers during reconstruction
What is a carpetbagger?
300
17th president of the United States who proposed a lenient plan of Reconstruction which included forgiveness to most former Confederates, had to ratify the 13th amendment, and abolish slavery
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
In this plan, Southerners were granted amnesty, and were able to make new governments and elect representatives to Congress if that state abolished slavery and ratified the 13th amendment
What is Johnson's Plan?
300
The bringing of formal charges against a public official
What is impeachment?
400
Barred all states from denying African American males from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
What is the 15th amendment?
400
Name given to Southern whites who had opposed secession
What is a scalawag?
400
Group of people that set up schools to teach freedmen how to read and write
Who are the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Under this bill, 50% of voters would have to sign a loyalty oath before a state could return to the Union
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
400
Southern states gave these tests which required voters to read and explain part of the Constitution
What are literacy tests?
500
Granted citizen rights to African Americans and guaranteed the civil rights of all people except Native Americans
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
A pardon, or forgiveness for a group of people
What is amnesty?
500
A Confederate sympathizer who is responsible for the death of Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
a court ruling that said a law could require "separate" facilities, as long as they were "equal"