A government agency to help former slaves. Lincoln and Congress agreed on this plan
What is Freedmen's Bureau
100
Men and women who had been slaves
What is freedmen
100
Rebuilding of the South
What is Reconstruction
100
requiring voters to pay a fee each time they voted
What is poll tax
100
Secret society formed in the south, by white males looking to make the south go back to the way things were.
What is Ku Klux Klan
200
Lincoln's plan where a southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
What is Ten Percent Plan
200
Members of Congress that vowed to take control of the Reconstruction.
What is Radical Republicans
200
government pardon
What is amnesty
200
Amendment that freed the slaves
What is 13th Amendment
200
First President to be impeached
What is Andrew Johnson
300
This act threw out the state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment
What is Reconstruction Act
300
A word used for small, scruffy horses.
What is scalawags
300
laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen
What is black codes.
300
all naturalized citizens have rights.
What is 14th Amendment
300
Killed President Lincoln
What is John Wilkes Booth
400
Laws that were based on segregation
What is Jim Crow Laws
400
White Southerners who had held power before the Civil War resisted Reconstruction.
What is Conservatives
400
Period that followed when Radical republicans took control of Congress
What is Radical Reconstruction.
400
African American males over the age of 21 right to vote
What is 15th Amendment
400
Became President in 1868, and had a lot of corruption charges.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
500
Plan for Reconstruction that required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union, and denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who fought in the confederacy.
What is Wade-Davis Bill
500
Rented and farmed a plot of land on large plantations
What is sharecroppers
500
bringing formal charges against
What is impeach
500
Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was equal