Reconstruction 1
The Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What years are considered the Reconstruction Era?
1865-1877
What is the bringing of formal charges against a public official called
What is Impeachment
Define: Segregation
enforced separation of races
What political party was committed to emancipation of enslaved people and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed African Americans.
The Radical Republican Party
What was a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop called?
What was a Sharecropper
What was the 14th amendment?
Anyone born in the United States is a citizen
This started as a Confederate social club and later became a violent terrorist organization whose purpose was to deny African Americans their constitutional rights.
What is the Klu Klux Klan
What was the point of the poll tax and the literacy test?
To prevent African Americans to vote
What year was the 13th amendment approved by Congress?
1865
What type of social divisions did southern states create after reconstruction and what was it called?
segregation and it was called the Black Codes or Jim Crow laws
What was the decision of Plessy v Ferguson in 1896?
Separate but equal is allowed, started legal segregation
What was the 15th amendment?
It allowed African Americans to vote
Define: Black Codes
new laws used by southern states to control African Americans
A legal loophole! Laws that allowed individuals to vote if their grandfathers had been eligible to vote before a specific date, typically January 1, 1867
What is the grandfather clause?
Why was the Radical Republican's plan for Reconstruction not put in place?
President Lincoln vetoed this plan because he feld it was too severe
When was the Freedman's Bureau established, and what did they do?
1865, and set up schools in the south
Who took over for President Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Who shot Abraham Lincoln, and what happened to him?
John Wilkes Booth and he was captured and killed
Why is President Grant regarded poorly in history?
He had a corrupt cabinet and the country was in a difficult time (Reconstruction).
How many military districts in the South were established with the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
What is 5
Why did sharecropping lead to a cycle of poverty?
the sharecroppers often owed more than they had earned and had no choice but to offer the landlord a greater percentage of next years crop
Who won the election of 1876, and how?
Rutherford B Hayes, because he agreed to end reconstruction
Lincoln 10% plan called for
10% of state to take a loyalty oath
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford's Theater