Section 1
This politician was assassinated at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What were the Black Codes?
Unflattering term for white southern Republicans.
What is scalawags?
The granting of a pardon to a large number of persons.
What is amnesty?
Forbade any state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
What is the 15th Amendment?
Post war challenges faced by the North.
What is high unemployment? (800,000 returning soldiers and factory layoffs)
Two prominent Radical Republicans, one from Massachusetts and the other from Pennsylvania.
Who were Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner?
Farmers who cultivated a plot of land in exchange for a percentage of the harvest.
What were sharecroppers?
Won the election of 1876, when a congressional commission gave him 20 disputed electoral votes.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
Period of time when Republicans in Congress had supermajorities and could (and would) override presidential vetos.
What was Radical Reconstruction?
President's Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
He finished Jefferson Davies term in the Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
What marked the end of Reconstruction?
What is troops leaving the South in 1877.
Banned slavery throughout the nation.
What is the 13th Amendment?
President Lincoln did not sign this bill into law (pocket veto).
What was the Wade-Davis bill?
This amendment defines citizen as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States".
What is 14th Amendment.
Infamous "secret society" that used domestic terrorism to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of public office.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Three ways that southern states limited access to voting.
1. Poll taxes
2. Literacy tests
3. Grandfather clauses
The legal separation of races.
What is segregation?
This agency created colleges for African Americans and set up the public school system in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This law divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts were the army commanders had the power to enforce Recontruction.
What is the first Reconstruction Act?
He was the first African American to be elected to the Senate in 1874 and serve a full term.
Who was Blanche K Bruce?
This Supreme Court decision that declared that segregation was legal (separate but equal).
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Who were the conservatives?