Vocabulary
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What were the Farmers who were given land and supplies and in return give the landowners a portion of their crop called?
What are Sharecroppers?
This plan did not punish the South, required 10% of the voters in the state to swear their loyalty to the Union, offered amnesty to all white Southerners, except Confederate leaders, and granted some African Americans the right to vote.
What is Lincoln's Plan?
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What was a poll tax?
What is a fee people had to pay in order to vote?
Who was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
Who was Blanche K. Bruce?
What did Amendment 15 do?
Prohibits states from denying the right to vote to any male citizen based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
What did the Freedman’s Bureau offer?
Food, clothing, medical services, schools, helped acquire land, free transportation, fought for fair wages
What does Impeach mean?
what is to formally charge the president (or government official) with wrongdoing
What was the name of the secret society organized to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights; they also wanted to help whites regain power?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What did Amendment 13 do?
Abolished slavery in the USA
What did Amendment 14 do?
What is granted full citizenship to people born in the USA or naturalized and guarantees all people equal protection under the laws.
Which vocab word means "Granting a pardon, or protection from trial of an illegal act?"
What is Amnesty?
What is a Group of people who saved (redeemed) the South from Republican rule
Which laws required African Americans and whites to be segregated in public places?
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Who were the Carpetbaggers?
Who are Northerners who went South after the Civil War for political or financial opportunities?
What was is called to separate people by race?
What is segregation?
Why did the Radical Republicans want Johnson impeached?
They accused him of misconduct because Johnson Suspended Secretary of War Stanton without Senate approval which violated the Tenure of Office Act.
How did the Black Codes trample (take away) the rights of the African Americans? GIVE TWO EXAMPLES!!!
Arrest & fine African Americans who are unemployed
Banned from owning/renting farms, African Americans could not own guns
Allowed whites to have orphaned African American children as unpaid apprentices
What was Johnson's plan?
This plan opposed giving African Americans equal rights and allowed the wealthy landowners had to personally apply to the President for a pardon