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African Americans during Reconstruction
100

Term applied to Northerners accused of coming to the South to gain wealth at the expense of Southerners

carpetbaggers

100
Confederate supporter and well-known actor who shot President Lincoln while he was attending a play.

John Wilkes Booth

100

Extended the right to vote to black men

The Fifteenth Amendment

100

Plan that gave a general pardon to all Southerners except for Confederate military and government leaders and required 10 percent of the 1860 voting population in Confederate states to pledge allegiance to the United States

ten percent plan

100
Was created to ease the transition from slavery to freedom

Freedmen's Bureau

200

System in which freed people rented the land they worked and paid the landlords with the crops they grew

sharecropping

200

self-made man who served as vice president under Lincoln and became president after Lincoln's assassination

Andrew Johnson

200

This amendment ended slavery in the United States

Thirteenth Amendment

200

Speeches given by President Johnson to gain support for his Reconstruction plan, which included a call to reject the 14th amendment 

"swing around the circle" speeches

200
Fraternal groups founded in the North that expanded into the South after the war to enroll Black voters and get them involved in politics

Union Leagues

300

Term used for those that wanted to regain their states from northern control and restore the antebellum social order keeping black people in place under white people.

Redeemers

300

They were disappointed that the 15th amendment excluded women so they formed the National Women's Suffrage Association.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

300

This organization was created because the Fifteenth Amendment did not include voting rights for women

National Women's Suffrage Association

300

These Acts divided the ten southern states into military districts under the command of a Union General, required new state constitutions to be written and ratification of the 14th amendment before readmittance into the Union

The Reconstruction Acts

300
Series of discriminatory state laws passed by southern states

Black Codes

400

Term used to describe Southern white people that supported Reconstructions

Scalawags

400

He was born free in North Carolina and rose to prominence as a minister in the AME Church before becoming the first black senator in 1870.

Hiram Revels

400

This amendment gave citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

Fourteenth Amendment

400

This act required the president to gain approval of the Senate before appointing or removing officials.

Tenure of Office Act

400

A Christian organization that established and ran schools for the freedmen in the South

American Missionary Association

500

System in which store owners extended credit to farmers under the agreement that the farmers would pay the debt with a portion of their future harvest.

crop-lien system

500

Former Confederate General that founded the Ku Klux Klan

Nathan Bedford Forrest

500

This celebration marks the day that slaves in Texas learned slavery had ended due to the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Juneteenth

500

These laws were designed to stop the Klan from intimidating blacks at the polls and prosecute crimes against freed people in federal courts

Enforcement Acts

500

This Act contradicted the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision which declared that black people could never be citizens.

Civil Rights Act of 1866