Important People
Reconstruction
Key Terms
Laws and Acts
Quotes
100
He was the president in 1866
Who is Andrew Johnson
100
Blacks were given this amount of land from plantations to farm and live.
What is 40 Acres
100
The process used by Legislative body to bring charges of the wrongdoing against a public official.
What is Impeachment
100
It offered the Southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
What is the Ten Percent Plan
100
"Let Us Have Peace"
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
On April 14, 1865 he was assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY They thought the Black Codes were cruel and Unjust however wanted the government to be much more involved in Reconstruction.
What is Radical Republicans
200
They wanted the Federal Government to force change in the South
What is Radical Republicans
200
These Three Amendments: Made slavery illegal throughout the United States, Declared who were citizens, and Allowed Black men to vote,
What is the Thirteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and Fifteenth Amendment
200
"If you call this freedom what do you call slavery?"
Who is a civil war veteran
300
an Agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the south
What is Freedmen's Bureau
300
Many Black Couples did this which was not recognized under slavery
What is marry
300
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states into the Union
What is Reconstruction
300
Laws the greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
What is the Black Codes
300
The Future condition of the conquered powers depends on the will of the conqueror...."
Who is Thaddeus Stevens
400
Born Free in North Carolina, first African American in the Senate
Who is Hiram Revels
400
The 1866 Elections gave this party a commanding two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate
What is Republican Party
400
laws that enforced segregation.
What is Jim Crow Laws
400
Double Jeopardy These Laws divided the South into five districts
What is Reconstruction Acts
400
"Military Governments established for an indefinite period would have divided the people into the vanquishers...."
Who is Andrew Johnson
500
Secret Society opposed Civil Rights particular suffrage for African Americans
What is the Klu Klux Klan
500
He illegally fired a cabinet official
Who is Andrew Johnson
500
Special Tax people had to pay before they could vote.
What is Poll Tax
500
Provided Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
What is Civil Rights Act of 1866
500
"In the eye of the law there is in the country no superior, dominate ruling class of citizens..."
Who John Marshall Harlan.
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