Reconstruction Plans
Lincoln was unable to fulfill his long-term Reconstruction plan due to what event in April 1865?
His assassination
Republicans who not only wanted to end slavery but extend all rights to African Americans, including marriage and voting rights, were known as what?
Radical Republicans
Laws that were passed in the South designed to counteract the freedoms that the North was trying to give African Americans were called what?
Black Codes
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Radical Republicans tried unsuccessfully to remove Andrew Johnson from office by doing what?
Impeaching him
This was the name for an emancipated slave during Reconstruction.
Freedman
The process of allowing Southern states to rejoin the Union, freeing their slaves, and rebuilding their economy was called what?
Reconstruction
The right to vote is known as what?
Hint: It sounds bad, but it's a good thing.
Suffrage
Name one of two Black Codes that made it difficult for African American men to vote during Reconstruction.
Literacy tests
and
Poll Taxes
After Reconstruction and the end of black codes, these types of laws kept whites and black segregated.
Jim Crow laws
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This man became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He is often considered one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.
Andrew Johnson
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, known as the 10 percent plan, had southern states readmitted to the Union as long as 10% of that state did what?
Pledge allegiance to the Union
This amendment finally abolished slavery from the Constitution.
The Thirteenth Amendment
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What law allowed poor, uneducated white Southerners to vote, but prevented poor, uneducated African Americans from voting?
Grandfather clause
This group was formed by former Confederate soldiers, and wanted to restore the old Southern way of life by terrorizing African Americans.
The Ku Klux Klan
Southerners who wanted to reunite with the Union after the war, and voted for Republicans, were known by other Southerners as what?
Scalawags
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This institution was designed to assist, aid and educate recently empancipated former slaves. It was unpopular in the South.
The Freedmen's Bureau
This amendment said you cannot be denied the right to vote based on your race.
The Fifteenth Amendment
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Many African Americans worked as these, a form of labor that was very similar to slavery and in some ways worse, as they had to pay for their own food and shelter.
Sharecroppers
While the 15th amendment and the Force Acts (which targeted black codes) were passed under this President, his handling of Reconstruction is questionable. The Freedmen's Bureau was allowed to lapse, for example, and he did not enforce the 1875 Civil Rights Act.
Ulysses S Grant
Republicans who came to the South after the war to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation were called what?
Carpetbaggers
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Name a way in which Johnson's plan differed from the Radical Republican's plan.
Johnson pardoned former Confederates, while the RR wanted to punish them
OR
The RR wanted to give full citizenship and equality to African Americans. Johnson did not.
This amendment stated that everyone born in the U.S. was a citizen (including former slaves), established right to due process, and provided equal protection under the law to all U.S. citizens.
Fourteenth Amendment
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What kind of activities did groups like the Red Shirts and the White League participate in during Reconstruction in the South?
White terrorism against African Americans
This is the name for murder committed by a mob, often by hanging and without a legal trial. After the North removed troops from the South, many African Americans became victims of this at the hands of racist Southerners.
Lynching
Who became President after the Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B Hayes
Lincoln vetoed this bill by Radical Republicans that increased Lincoln's 10% to 50%.
Wade-Davis Bill
What was done by Congress for the first time in American history to pass the Civil Rights bill in 1866?
They overrode Johnson's presidential veto.
If a sharecropper owed crops or rent to their landlord, they would not be allowed to leave the farm until it was paid off. What was this system called?
Debt peonage
Historians generally agree that the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction. How was it a compromise? What did each side get?
The Northern Republicans would remove the troops policing the south and in exchange, Southern Democrats would accept Rutherford B. Hayes as President even though the election results were questionable.
This man was the first African American to serve in Congress.
Hiram Rhodes Revels