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Vocabulary
100
He was the one who shot President Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
100
Divided the former Confederacy-with the exception of already-reconstructed Tennessee- into five military districts
What was the Reconstruction Acts?
100
System used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for supplies and a small share of the crops.
What was sharecropping?
100
Lincoln's plan
Which plan Planned for Reconstruction?
100
An official pardon issued by the government
What is amnesty?
200
He is the one who suggested that African Americans be given the right to vote.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
200
To abolish slavery.
What was the Thirteenth Ammendment?
200
African Americans
Who formed cooperatives to buy farmland?
200
Johnson's plan
Which plan issued a pardon?
200
Reconstruction was to rebuild the former Confederate states and reunite the nation.
What is Reconstruction?
300
Lacked political experience. Was a popular war hero and defeated Seymour in a close race to become President.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Closely resembled pre-Civil War slave codes
What was the Black Codes?
300
Henry W. Grady
Who was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution?
300
Johnson's Plan
Which plan called to nullify their acts of secession?
300
Agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
Assumed the presidency. He was a Democrat, a onetime slaveholder, and a former U.S. senator from Tennessee.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
400
Guaranteed that African Americans have equal citizenship between all people no matter the race
What was the Fourteen Ammendment?
400
A lawsuit brought in 1886 after African American Homer Plessy was denied a seat in a first-class railway car.
What was the Plessy v. Ferguson about?
400
Lincoln's plan
Which plan issued the proclamation of amnesty?
400
"Scoundrels" ; name that former Confederates gave to southern Republican during Reconstruction
What are Scalawags?
500
Demanded "the immediate, unconditional, and universal 'enforcement [right to vote] of the black man, in every State in the Union.'"
Who was Frederick Douglass?
500
Guaranteed African Americans the right to vote.
What was the Fourteenth Ammendment?
500
Laws that enforced segregation in the South
What were Jim Crow laws?
500
Congress's Plan
Which plan developed a plan in the Wade Davis Bill?
500
Three acts passed by Congress allowing the government to use military force to stop violence against southern African Americans.
What are the Enforcements Acts?