Vocab
These laws were passed in many southern states after the Civil War that were designed to regulate the labor, movements, and behavior of former slaves.
Black Codes
Created the Ten Percent Plan
Abraham Lincoln
These laws were passed in many southern states after the Civil War that were designed to regulate the labor, movements, and behavior of former slaves.
Black Codes
___________ Members of Congress who thought the people of the South should be punished for seceding.
Radical Republicans
Was the name given to the period between the end of the Civil War and 1877.
Reconstruction
_________ is the process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official while that official is still in office.
Impeachment
The President who took over after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He also agreed with Lincoln over the issue of Reconstruction. There was an attempt to impeach him 3 times.
Andrew Johnson
President Lincoln’s 1863 plan for Reconstruction.
Ten Percent Plan
_____________ a paramilitary group, formed in 1873, that was committed to restoring the state to white Democratic rule by whatever means necessary.
White Leaguers
What issues caused strong reactions in Louisiana? There are two different issues.
Citizenship rights and the right to vote
________ the term used to describe the return of White Democratic political control after Reconstruction.
Home Rule
The Governor who approved the attack on a Police Precinct and dismantled the State Supreme Court.
Governor Nicholls
_________ Provided emergency relief to poor southerners, both white and black.
Freedmen's Bureau
__________ Formed in St. Mary Parish was the largest group of this type, but similar groups formed in all regions of the state.
Knights of the White Camellia
Why were Democrats trying to block newly freed people from voting?
Democrats would not be able to regain control of political office
_____________ Term for politicians or civilians who leave a state or area with the goal of gaining political power in another.
Who is the Governor of Louisiana who established a returning board. He also won a contested election for Governor.
Governor Warmoth
There were three different amendments after the Civil War they were called:
Reconstruction Acts
Federal Troops thwarted the White League in New Orleans. White Leaguers called this Event.
Battle of Liberty Place
The election of 1876 was hotly contested. In order for President Hayes to take office what did he have to do?
He removed the last of federal troops from former Confederate states.
The term used to take votes away from former Confederates
Disfranchised
_________ was the first African American to hold a statewide office in Louisiana.
Oscar J Dun
Which Amendment in the constitution of the United State’s is the one that officially freed Slaves?
A deadly Riot of April 1873, that was committed to restoring the state to white Democratic rule by whatever means necessary.
Colfax Massacre
What is the Equalitarian Document?
This document called for new documents. Amended the Louisiana constitution. And ending Governor Nicholls term one year earlier.