Vocab
Vocab #2
Main Ideas
Critical Thinking
Analyzing
100
Official forgiveness of a crime
What is a Pardon
100
A northern Republican who moved to the South after the Civil War looking for a profit.
What is a Carpetbagger
100
He was acquitted from wrong doing by just one vote.
Who was President Johnson
100
Why were Americans getting tired of Reconstruction?
Heavy taxation to pay for Reconstruction.
100
Were the 13, 14, 15th amendments a positive or negative result of the Reconstruction?
What is Positive
200
Unflattering name for a white southern Republican
What is a Scalawag
200
An act of formally charging a government official with wrongdoing in office
What is Impeach
200
A series of Laws passed by Radical Republicans designed to protect the Civil Rights of African Americans.
What are the Reconstruction Acts
200
What was Lincolns hope for Reconstruction?
What is to bring the nation back together and create lasting peace.
200
How was the Reconstruction program paid for?
Through heavy taxation
300
Personal liberties guaranteed by law
What are Civil Rights
300
Legislation that states all person born in or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment
300
Federal troops were removed from the South meant what was over?
What is Reconstruction
300
Why did Radical Republicans object to President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans felt Lincoln was too lenient on the South.
300
What type of crops were grown in the South after Reconstruction? Food or Cash crops?
What is Cash crops.
400
Legislation stating that no citizen can be denied the right to vote because of race. (Says nothing about women!)
What is the 15th Amendment
400
A federal program to repair the South and bring the southern states back into the Union
What is Reconstruction
400
Goal of the Freedmen's Bureau
What is to help former slaves adjust to freedom
400
The Amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment
400
How did most Southerners view the Federal Government after Reconstruction?
Most people in the South viewed the government with anger and bitterness.
500
A farmer who grows a crop on someone else's land and gives the landowner part of the crop.
What is a Sharecropper
500
First major federal relief agency in the U.S., designed to help black southerner's adjust to freedom
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
500
He made a compromise with Democrats in 1877 to become president.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
500
A group that terrorizes the Freedmen.
What is Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
500
Personal liberties guaranteed by law
What are Civil Rights
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