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What do we call the period after the Civil War when the US government attempted to restore the South?
Reconstruction
What was another name for President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
Restoration
T or F: Recently freed African Americans found the post-war South very similar to the pre-war South
True
This group was created in the South as a response to African Americans gaining new freedoms post-Civil War
Ku Klux Klan
Which amendment outlawed slavery in the United States?
13th
T or F: President Johnson felt it was important for him to decide the fate of newly freed African Americans
False
What is the name given to new laws adopted by southern states in effort to limit African Americans freedoms?
Black Codes
Northern Republicans who moved to the South were called?
Carpetbaggers
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to:
Scare and intimidate African Americans
Andrew Johnson
Which amendment granted African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law?
14th
T or F: President Johnson supported the Freedmen's Bureau
False
What is the system called where a landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a portion of the crop?
Sharecropping
Which amendment granted African American men voting rights?
15th
What is the name of the federal agency created to help the transition from slavery to emancipation?
Freedmen's Bureau
T or F: Radical Republicans believed African Americans were entitled to the same rights and opportunities as whites
True
What was one factor in sharecropping that caused African Americans to be tied to the land they worked; similar to slavery
High interest debt; unpredictable harvests
Who won the election of 1876?
Rutherford B Hayes
What group wanted to continue punishing the South during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
President Andrew Johnson was the first American President to be what?
Impeached
What was the primary reason for Andrew Johnson's impeachment?
Did not support (vetoed) the Civil Rights Act
The system of _________ combined with ______ _______ being passed in southern states continued to oppress African Americans post-Civil War
sharecropping; Black Codes
Reconstruction officially ended with the
Compromise of 1877