Vocabulary
Law/Act/
Amendment
Law/Act/
Amendment II
People/Groups
Short Answer
100

The process of readmitting former Confederate states into the Union

Reconstruction

100

Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans

Black Codes

100

Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote

15th Amendment

100

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

100

At what age did children start working in the mills?

12

200

Land owners provided the land, tools, and supplies and these people provided the labor

Sharecroppers
200

A special tax people had to pay before they could vote

poll tax

200

Laws that enforced segregation

Jim Crow Laws

200

An agency providing relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South

Freedman's Bureau

200

How long did workers labor in the mills?

12 hours a day 6 days a week

300
Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public areas

Segregation

300

These laws divided the South into given districts

Reconstruction Acts

300

Amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the United States

13th Amendment

300

Secret Society which opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans

Ku Klux Klan

300

What caused a failure in the stock market prompting investors to begin selling shares of stock more rapidly than people wanted to buy them?

Panic of 1873

400

The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

Impeachment
400

This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans

Civil Rights Act of 1866

400

This Amendment further guaranteed civil rights to all people including guaranteeing citizens equal protection of the laws and not depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

14th Amendment

400

This group wanted the federal government to force change in the South

Radical Republicans

400

This happened where the Democrats agreed to accept Hayes's victory where in return they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South

Compromise of 1877

500

The name given to northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the war

Carpetbaggers

500

Offered Southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion

Ten Percent Plan

500

Act that allowed former Confederates, except those who held high ranks, to serve in public office

Amnesty Act of 1872

500

The two leaders of the Radical Republicans

Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner