The Amendments
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the U.S.
13th Amendment
He proposed the '10% Plan' to bring the South back quickly.
Abraham Lincoln
This 1864 bill required 50% of voters to take a loyalty oath.
Wade-Davis Bill
This agency provided food, clothing, and schools to refugees.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Farming system where landless farmers gave a share of crops to landowners.
Sharecropping
This amendment granted citizenship to all born in the U.S.
14th Amendment
He became President after Lincoln and was later impeached.
Andrew Johnson
Under this 'Radical' plan, the South was divided into 5 of these.
Military Districts
Northerners who moved South to help or to seek profit.
Carpetbaggers
Southern laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes
This amendment says voting rights cannot be denied based on race.
15th Amendment
The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House.
Thaddeus Stevens
This agreement led to the removal of troops and ended Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
White Southerners who cooperated with the Republican Party.
Scalawags
Secret society that used terror to restore white supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This law was passed over Johnson's veto to grant equal rights.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This Union General/President signed laws to crush the KKK.
Ulysses S. Grant
Johnson gave thousands of these to former Confederate leaders.
Presidential Pardons
Southern Democrats who wanted to 'save' the South from Republican rule.
Redeemers
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation later on.
Jim Crow Laws
Acts passed in 1870-71 to protect voters from the KKK.
Enforcement Acts
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
The violation of this Act led directly to Johnson's impeachment.
Tenure of Office Act
Laws used to arrest freedmen for being unemployed.
Vagrancy Laws
General Sherman’s famous field order that promised land to freedmen.
Special Field Orders, No. 15 (40 Acres and a Mule)