C. 2.1 Vocabulary A
The 16th President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
A time for rebuilding the nation after the Civil War.
Reconstruction
An 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold political office who had fought for the Confederacy (Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh).
Wade-Davis Bill
What idea did the Radical Republicans believe in?
They believed in more freedom for African Americans.
Who was a Civil War hero who later became the President of the United States and served for two terms?
Ulysses S. Grant
General of the Union Army.
Ulysses S. Grant
The basic framework of a building or a system.
intrastructure
A federal law granting citizenship to former slaves passed over Johnson's veto.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Gave black men the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
What was one of the main goals of the United States Congress during the Reconstruction?
The main goal was to bring the Southern states back into the Union.
Ended slavery.
13th Amendment
To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office.
impeach
White supremacist group that terrorized African Americans.
Klu Klux Klan
Who is the southerner who was impeached and narrowly escaped being removed from office?
Andrew Johnson
Who developed the Ten Percent Plan?
Abraham Lincoln
First African American senator.
Hiram Revels
Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Ten Percent Plan
Laws made to control blacks.
Black codes or Code Noir
Divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th Amendment; guaranteed freedmen to vote and to write a new state constitution.
Military Reconstruction Act
Who became President of the United States after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
Laws to control blacks.
Black Codes
Provided food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and poor whites.
Freedman's Bureau
Gave black men citizenship.
Fourteenth Amendment
What did the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment deal primarily with?
They all dealt primarily with the rights of formerly enslaved people.
Who developed the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864?
Radical Republicans