The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
What is reconstruction?
100
Laws passed in the South aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
What are black codes?
100
Took the place as president after the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
It granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Crops resold for money
What are cash crops?
200
A fee that people had to pay before voting
What is poll tax?
200
Separation of races
What is segregation?
200
Owned almost all of the tobacco manufacturing in the nation.
Who is James Duke?
200
A small percentage of the voters in a state take an oath of loyalty to the Union, the state could form a new government and adopt a new constitution that had to ban slavery
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
200
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln at the play "Our American Cousin"
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
A name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South
What is a scalawag?
300
The granting of pardon to a large numbre of persons; protection from prosecution for an illegal act
What is amnesty?
300
Against African Americans and went around burning their homes, churches and schools
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
50% of the white males in a state had to swear loyalty to the Union and a state constitutional convention could be held
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
300
Established a new government agency to help former enslaved persons
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
What is impeach?
400
The most common form of fram work for freed individuals
What is share cropping?
400
Newspaper editor from New York who ran against Grant in the 1872 election
Who is Horace Greeley?
400
A case involving a Louisianna law requiring separate sections on trains for African Americans
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
Required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place where they might come in contact with each other
What are the Jim Crow laws?
500
Voters had to read and explain difficult parts of state constitutions or the Federal Constitution
What is a literacy test?
500
It allowed individuals who did not passs the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began
What is a grandfather clause?
500
Led the south to revolt against the Union
Who is Henry Grady?
500
The government would give more aid to the region and withdraw all remaining troops from Southern states and the Democrats promised to maintain African Americans' rights
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
Changed the political balance in the South by restoring full rights to people who supported the Democratic Party