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What President was impeached during Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
What secret society emerged in the South with the goal of keeping blacks from voting and out of political office?
Ku Klux Klan
What law allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold office again?
Amnesty Act of 1872
What 3 Amendments are called the Reconstruction Amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th
Who was the President who ended Reconstruction by agreeing to remove federal troops from the South?
Rutherford Hayes
What Amendment abolished slavery?
13th
DOUBLE HISTORDY
What system developed in the South after the Civil War where landowners let farmers use their land in exchange for a share of crops grown?
What resulted from the 15th Amendment?
Voting rights for black men
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What is one aspect of President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan that provided food and medical care for freed slaves and poor whites and established schools?
Freedmen's Bureau
What Supreme Court decision supported segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
DOUBLE HISTORDY
Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives?
Who were the Scalawags? Who were the Carpetbaggers? Why were each disliked?
Scalawags were Southerners who worked with the federal government. Carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction to help or sometimes to make money. Scalawags were seen as traitors and Carpetbaggers were seen as greedy.
What law passed by Congress overrode President Johnson's veto, threw out Southern state governments who did not ratify the 14th Amendment, and placed the South under army control?
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Was President Andrew Johnson removed from office? Briefly describe what happened.
No, he was not. The House impeached him, but the Senate found him not guilty by 1 vote.
What were the 2 major goals of the Radical Republicans?
1) Ensured freedmen had their rights, especially the right to vote
2) Break control of aristocratic plantation owners over the South
Who was the black man arrested for disobeying a Jim Crow law segregating trains, which led to a significant Supreme Court decision?
Homer Plessy
In what 2 ways did Southern governments prevent blacks from voting?
Poll taxes and Literacy Tests
Who was the first black man elected to the United States Congress?
Hiram Revels
Give 4 examples of Jim Crow laws.
Separate bathrooms, water fountains, sections of trains, busses, businesses, and Bibles in court