Early Reconstruction
This & That
Vocabulary
Laws and Amendments
Miscellaneous
100

This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

Who is John Wilkes Booth? 
100
This system of farming allowed farmers to buy goods on credit and then give a portion of the crop to the landowner for rent.  It often led to a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping? 
100

This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education

What is Ku Klux Klan? 
100

people in some southern states had to pay this before they could vote

What is poll tax? 
100
This amendment freed the slaves. 
What is the 13th amendment? 
200

This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union

What is the 10% plan? 
200

This was the federal government effort to repair the damage to the South and to restore the southern states to the Union.

What is Reconstruction? 
200

This is the term Southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South

What are carpetbaggers? 
200
Andrew Johnson was impeached for vetoing what act? 
What is the Tenure of Office Act? 
200
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. 
What is the 15th amendment? 
300

This plan forced southerners to pay war debts and didn't allow African Americans to vote.

What is Johnson's plan? 
300
This was the term for a white, Southern, Republican. 
What is a scalawag? 
300

These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves

What are black codes? 
300

This law was passed to protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.

What is the Enforcement Act? 
300
This ended the Reconstruction period. 
What is when the military troops were removed from the South?
400
In determining who had the right to be in charge of Reconstruction, what main issue had to be decided? 
Whether or not the South had seceded from the Union.  If they did secede, it was Congress who could admit new states.  If they didn't secede, it was up to the President to control Reconstruction. 
400

Southern Democrats who won their states back from the Republicans. Many were former Confederate leaders.


What are redeemers? 
400

If your grandfather was a slave before January 1, 1867, you couldn't vote, according to this law.

What is the Grandfather clause? 
400

This stated that all people born in the US were citizens; except Native Americans. 

What is the 14th amendment? 
400

This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education

What is Freedman's Bureau? 
500

These people ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and occupied the south with the US military.

What are Radical Republicans? They thought the Civil War was fought to give African Americans civil liberties. 
500
He was the first African American to serve in the Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels? 
500

According to the Compromise of 1877, Democrats promised to choose this man as the new President if he promised to remove the military from the South.

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500

Laws that divided the South into 5 districts

What are Reconstruction Acts? 
500

The "separate-but-equal" court decision

What is Plessy v Ferguson? 
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