What is the name of the plan where a former confederate state could rejoin the Union once it had written a new state constitution and abolished slavery.
Johnson's Reconstruction plan
100
What is the name of the act that declared freedmen to be full citizens with the same rights as whites?
Civil Rights Act of 1866
100
Who were the three groups that were allowed to vote?
1. Freedmen
2. white southerners who opposed the war
3. northerners who had moved south after the war.
100
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
whites who formed a secret society that threatened black voters through beating and even murdering them.
100
What is a law passed requiring citizens who wanted to vote to pay a tax?
Poll tax
200
What is that name given to former slaves?
Freedmen
200
Which amendment declared that former slaves be citizens with full civil rights?
14th Amendment
200
Which amendment protected the rights of African American males to vote?
15th Amendment
200
What are the three titan truths?
Respect, Responsibility, Ready to learn
200
What is the name of a law that required citizens to pass a test to show that they could read before allowing them to vote?
Literacy test
300
What is the name given were people were intent on controlling their former slaves by limiting the rights of freedmen?
Black Codes
300
What type of reconstruction forced southerners to obey the newly formed 13th and 14th amendment?
Military reconstruction
300
What is the name given to dirty scoundrels because they ere traitors to the south?
Scalawags
300
What is the name of the act that forgave past offenses committed by confederates and allowed them to vote again?
The Amnesty Act of 1872
300
This clause said taxes and tests applied only to those people whose father or grandfather could not vote on January 1, 1867?
Grandfather clause
400
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A bureau that provided food and medical care, helped freedmen bargain for better wages and working conditions, and some plots of lands.
400
What is Sharecropping?
freedmen were given plots of land for farming however needed to borrow money from planters to buy seeds, tools, and supplies.
400
What is the fire drill procedure?
Silent, walk out with teacher, stand at classroom #
400
Once Hayes became president, he agreed to give southern states the right to control their own affairs. This is known as what?
The compromise of 1877
400
What is the name of the law where a "color line" separated blacks and whites in public places?
Jim Crow Laws
500
What were the two main goals of reconstruction?
1. southern states had to create new governments.
2. slavery had to be abolished once and for all.
500
What is presidential impeachment?
When a president if forced to give up his or her position.
500
What is one benefit to having African Americans as office holders?
They would have a say in new proposed laws or changes to their state constitutions.
500
How many children does Mrs. Fedele have?
3
500
What is the name of the court case where the belief of "separate but equal" was born?