Lincoln offered a governmental pardon, also known as this, to Confederates who swore loyalty to the Union. Although, it would not apply to former leaders of the Confederacy.
What is amnesty?
100
These laws severely limited the rights of freedmen after the Civil War.
What are the black codes?
100
Many whites in the South felt any southerner who helped the Republicans was a traitor, also known as this.
What is a scalawag? (Also, a word used for a small, scruffy horse.)
100
Legal separation of the races.
What is segregation?
100
Where and when was President Lincoln assassinated.
What is Ford's Theatre and April 14, 1865. (Five days after the end of the Civil War.)
200
Name the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is a governmental agency to help former slaves? (It gave food, clothing and also tried to find jobs for former slaves.)
200
Define impeach(ment).
What is to bring formal charges against a public official. (The House voted to bring charges against Johnson.)
200
Carpetbaggers.
What is northerners who came to the South after the war hoping to get rich from the South's misery? (Only had time to fling a few things into a cheap suitcase, also known as a carpetbag.)
200
Define poll taxes.
What is requiring voters to pay a fee each time they voted. (Many poor freedmen couldn't afford to vote.)
200
All persons born or naturalized in the United States. It guarantees equal protection.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
Lincoln's early plan for Reconstruction. Under this plan, a southern state could form a new government and rejoin the Union after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
300
Name the two main goals of Radical Republicans, who were people that felt Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too lenient.
What are to break the power of wealthy planters who long ruled the South, and to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote?
300
They held political power before the Civil War, resisted Reconstruction and resented military enforcement of Reconstruction policies.
Who are the Conservatives?
300
The third major new group in southern politics. Before the war, they had no voice, but during Reconstruction they ran for and were elected to public office.
Who are African Americans?
300
Forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
400
In response to Lincoln's original plan, which was considered too generous, this plan required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty. It also denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who fought for the Confederacy.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
400
It threw out state governments that refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment (all former Confederate states except Tennessee). It also divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act (March 1867)?
400
This secret society of white southerners' main goal was this.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of office.
400
Reconstruction came to end with this election.
What is the Election of 1876?
400
Voters were required to read and explain a section of the Constitution in order to vote.
What is a literacy test?
500
Johnson's plan for Reconstruction called for a majority of voters in each southern state to pledge loyalty to the United States. Each also had to pass, or ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which did this.
What is banned slavery throughout the nation?
500
By 1868, most southern states had rejoined the Union. Since African Americans could now vote, nearly all voted for this man in the 1868 election.
What is Ulysses S. Grant (the Union's greatest Civil War hero)?
500
During Reconstruction, many freedmen and poor whites went to work on the large plantations. They rented and farmed a plot of land. But many went into debt because they could not repay what they had borrowed.
Who are sharecroppers?
500
This man promised if he was given the 20 disputed electoral votes needed to win the presidency, he would end Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
Laws separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, hospitals, etc. were known as these. Facilities were rarely equal, but the Constitution now recognized African Americans as citizens.