Plans for Reconstruction
What was the freedman's Bureau?
Congress providing help to the thousands of black and white southerners uprooted by the fighting
Black Codes offered
What is keeping freedman in slave like conditions and and to give planters a supply of cheap labor
Contrast the Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
What is the Scalawags were farmers who had never owned slaves and opposed secession and the war, and the Carpetbaggers were educated?
These three acts attempted to capture members of the Ku Klux Klan, including imprisonment, and heavy penalties
What is the Enforcement Acts
Person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
What was the procedure for readmitting seceded states?
Ten Percent Plan
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
What is the 13th amendment abolished slavery, 14th amendment granted citizenship, and the 15th amendment granted the right of citizens to vote
The first African American to serve in the U.S Senate
Who is Hiram Revels?
This group broke with the party over the Enforcement Acts
Who is the Liberal Republicans
The process set forth in the constitution for charging the president or another federal official with a crime
What is impeachment?
Lincoln pocket vetoed the Wade Davis Bill
What is because southerners would be more committed to continue the war?
Where did the Klu Klus Klan begin
Where is Tennessee in 1866?
This law set aside land in southern states to provide free farms for African Americans
What is the Southern Homestead Act?
Democrats who controlled the other southern states
Who are the Redeemers
Leader of the Radical Republicans
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Place that Lincoln's assassination occurred
Where is a play at Ford's theater in Washington D.C
This act gave African Americans citizenship and equal benefit of all laws
What is the Civil Rights Act
Most freedman and poor white southerners in the 1870s
What is sharecroppers and tenant farmers
South being strongly democratic
What is known as the Solid South
Unites States vs. Cruikshank ruled that the 14th amendment
What is that it did not empower the federal government to punish whites who suppressed African Americans?
Andrew Johnson's plan
What is restore the rights of white southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States?
Tenure of Office Act
What is Senate receives permission to remove any official whose appointment had required senate approval?
The Morehouse college educated what important person that delivered the speech "I have a dream"
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Why the Reconstruction collapsed
What is without the protection of the federal government
Time of industrialization and economic change in the South
What is called the New South?