Overview and Laws
Under Lincoln's plan, what percentage of voters were required to swear oaths of loyalty?
10%
What is the term for the series of laws passed in the South to restrict the freedoms of African Americans?
Black Codes
Who was the 16th president of the U.S? They were assassinated at the end of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The act of bringing charges against a public official in order to determine whether they should be removed from office.
Impeach
A terrorist organization formed in the South with the intention of promoting white supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan
The period during which the federal government controlled the states that had seceded from the Union During the Civil War.
Reconstruction
What amendment freed all former slaves and ended slavery after the end of the Civil War?
The 13th Amendment
Who was the first president to be impeached?
They were also the 17th President.
Andrew Johnson
Black freedmen and Northern newcomers were called what?
Carpetbagger
A test of "understanding" that African Americans had to take in order to vote
Literacy Test
List the 3 Challenges that Reconstructions had to answer
How to reunite the union?
How to rebuild the South?
How to extend citizenship to African Americans?
What act guarantied full citizenship for all and rights to every person born in the U.S.?
14th Amendment
Who won the election of 1868 and became the 18th President?
Ulysses S. Grant
What federal agency was created to provide aid for emancipated slaves and white refugees?
Freedmen's Bureau
A tax African Americans had to pay in order to vote.
Poll Tax
What was the name for laws passed to keep White and Black Southerns segregated.
Jim Crow Laws
What guaranteed voting rights to all males regardless of ethnicity, although it wasn't upheld?
15th Amendment
Based on the Compromise of 1877, who became the 19th president?
Rutherford B. Hayes
A group of political leaders who supported imposing harsh conditions on the states that had seceded from the Union.
Radical Republicans
Allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866 or 1867.
Grandfather Clause
1870 and 1871 laws that made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote. - Also known as the KKK Acts
Enforcement Acts
What Supreme Court case declared that "separate but equal" or segregation was legal?
Plessy V. Ferguson
White Southerners who supported the Reconstruction policies after the Civil War were called what?
Scalawag
Politicians who aimed to repair the South in the eyes of Congress.
Redeemer